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2 months ago | 
thestar.com.my | David Zucchino
HE is the Taxman of Kabul, a bearded, black-turbaned Talib with a genial manner and the calculating mind of a computer-savvy accountant. As director of the Taliban’s Taxpayers Services Directorate, Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi has the unenviable task of raising revenue for the government of a wretchedly poor, isolated nation.
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Jan 25, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | David Zucchino |Zia Ur Rehman
Nasir, a legal adviser to the Afghan Air Force during the war, helped approve airstrikes against Taliban fighters. He is still in Afghanistan, where he has lived in hiding since the Taliban takeover in 2021 while awaiting approval to resettle in the United States. He had passed background checks and needed only a medical exam to finish the process, he said.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Tracy Mumford |Valerie Hopkins |David Zucchino |Robert Jimison
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Tracy Mumford |Valerie Hopkins |David Zucchino |Robert Jimison |Ian Stewart |Jessica Metzger
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
estadao.com.br | David Zucchino
Em um auditório frio no Afeganistão, montes de esmeraldas verdes recém-extraídas reluziam sob fortes lâmpadas de mesa enquanto barbudos negociantes de pedras preciosas inspecionavam sua pureza e qualidade. Um leiloeiro pediu lances para o primeiro lote, que pesava 256 quilates. Com isso, o leilão semanal de pedras preciosas do Taleban teve início.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
clarin.com | David Zucchino
BAZARAK, Afganistán — En un auditorio frío en Afganistán, montones de esmeraldas verdes recién extraídas brillaban bajo lámparas de mesa brillantes mientras comerciantes de piedras preciosas con barba inspeccionaban su pureza y calidad. Un subastador pidió ofertas por el primer lote, que pesaba 256 quilates. Con eso, la subasta semanal de piedras preciosas de los talibanes estaba en marcha.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | David Zucchino
The Taliban government is counting on Afghanistan's bountiful gemstone and mineral resources after the loss of billions of dollars in international aid. In a chilly auditorium in Afghanistan, heaps of freshly mined green emeralds glowed under bright table lamps as bearded gemstone dealers inspected them for purity and quality. An auctioneer asked for bids on the first lot, which weighed 256 carats. With that, the Taliban's weekly gemstone auction was underway.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | David Zucchino
By David Zucchino December 31, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Yi-Pin Lin, an associate professor at Tufts University in the US, proudly says he has holidayed in 120 nations over the past decade. But there was one country he had always dreamed of visiting, only to be frightened off by decades of war, kidnappings and terrorism: Afghanistan.
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Dec 28, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | David Zucchino |Elise Blanchard
However, foreign businessmen and journalists - and many Afghans - are routinely monitored by agents of the General Directorate of Intelligence. A small percentage of foreign visitors are women, tourism officials said. Both Mr. Ghofran and Mawlavi Ahmadullah Muttaqi, the information and culture director for Herat Province, said there were no written strictures governing how female tourists should dress and behave in public.
