Afghanistan’s economy has been in turmoil since the Taliban took power a year ago. How did it get so bad? And can the Taliban turn things around? Sandra Gathmann takes #AJStartHere on the road to Afghanistan to explain what’s going on.
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Never, Afganistan getting worse in Taliban hand…it will
be better if Taliban leave islamic law behind
Lol, what did the millions of men there think was gonna happen by just lying down and allowing the Tali to take over?.? They had a trained military with solid weaponry and tbey all ran like cowards. A small unit took over a city of millions of capable resilience, oh well.
Pakistan illicitly help Taliban come to power and then they don’t recognise the Taliban govt in Kabul! That’s a surprise, but expected from a country like Pakistan. If the Taliban were to agree with minimum acceptable international rules, India might be providing expertise and some aid to the Taliban govt .
Shitiyaaaa LAW
Taliban can bring peace by oppressing people of Afghanistan.
How can I be of help .. am an African, but this people welfare really touches my heart .. I don’t mind d little dollar I wan send
This economic ha dilemmas led the country into unending problems insha’Allah this will pass but matter of meloncholly is the big mocks of Muslim world are under the hatch in their luxurious life no Arab no ajam but America claims here self loyal to world but frozen the aid of the afaganis in that that time where they need it direly Shame for this self politics
‘We need expertise and education. Except for half our population. They need to stay home and be slaves to indolent men.’
Pakistan should recognize them as we love afghan new government who free the Afghanistan from america
They eat islam and religion 3 times a day
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you sow what you reap, very much applicable to Afghan 🙂
You need education and a scholar people to build the country not mullas who’s sat in masjid only waiting for people to brings them food to eat
What was really criminal was Western nations freezing Afghanistan’s assets which indirectly(directly?) caused women and children to die of starvation for the past 2 years.
I totally agree with you. This should be said more often.
May Allah help them to solve these economic crises. They’re being sabotaged by outsiders who desperately want to see them fail
The previous Afghanistan gov was fully curupt.
they need to be educated frist. then only they can 7nderstand the problems and provide solutions. un educated brats.
Though we know Allah is the sustainer,Taliban would insha Allah delivered the economic situation of Afghanistan in to prosperous destination.
Where the Western feminists to fight for these women and girls??? I forgot” they just fight where they can hey mainstream media’s attention. In free countries with help of great men.
Poor afgans
In Islam in Quran Allah says every Muslim women and man should get education and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said To get Education even if you have to go to china you should go (there is no age limit for education in Islam for men or women)
F***CK PROPHET MUHAMMAD. HE’S THE PEDOPHILE.. THEY REASON IS THIS COUNTRY OR SO POOR. IS CAUSE THEY DONT INVEST IN WEALTH THEY INVEST IN HATE AND WAR. THIS THE WROST RELIGION ON EARTH.. THEY DONT WANT YOU TO MARRIED THEY WOMEN BUT. THEY DAMM SHUR MARRIED OTHER WOMEN. FRO. OTHER CULTURES.. FOLLOW JESUS CRIST.. HE’S LIVE, PIECE AND FORGIVES.THEY KORAN TEACHES TO HATE JEWS AND OTHER RELIGION. THEY HATE FULL PEOPLE AND RELIGION
Islam is the root of all evils
As young man living under the Taliban rule this really deeply affected me! Our people are unemployed, mostly illiterate, left destitute! 😭😔 and there are still ppl who are divided in the name of sect, ethnicity, and tribes!
ALLAH will soon gives you green fruit in your country inshallah don’t be upset be a set
@Abdul Wajid am pretty sure it won’t be the case, and this will get worse
In sha Allah one day your country will become rich it may take few more years or decades. At least you have got rid of the cruel invaders who only think for their own benefits.
Hope it’s not aljazeera crew member dropped the bread to proof a point
The real question is
Will West let them ?
MOST COUNTRY BLAME EVERYTHING ON WHITE AMERICA. BUT LOOK HOW THE KEEP THEY PEOPLE STARVE TO DEATH.. NO ONE WANT TO MAKE DEALS WHIT THIS ANIMALS GREEDE PEDOPHILES. THAS WHAT I CALL THEM.. JAJAJA GOD BLESS THIS ANIMALS. I HOPE WHEN THEY FIND JESUS CRIST
for 20 years what happened to their government. when they took over they did not think about what will happened?
What a question. That’s like wondering whether neanderthals can sit down together and come up with a new computer program today.
The western world takes away their ability to grow their economy and then blame them for being poor
The Taliban’s affinity for all things economic can be summed up in the words of another theocrat, Ayatollah Khomeini, who once said: “economics is for donkeys.”
Long live Afghanistan 💚Aminn✌
The struggles have been there for years because Afghanistan has never been stable. It is so wrong to blame the Taliban for all this economic woes when the West has always controlled every bit of Afghan economy… The anger from NATO failure in Afghanistan is the cause of all this misery no wonder they are pumping everything they have into Ukraine to ensure they have an unstable country like Afghanistan in front of Russia with millions of unctrollable weapons
The better approach would have been to help people help themselves. But we all know how most of that aid money get spent.
Allahu Akbar. Should be better than Pakistan or Srilanka
Taliban are much much smarter than we think
I thought China was taking over 🤣🤣🤣
Silly question….the Taliban don’t know what century it is, much less know how to run an economy.
What B.S professor, get out there and help your people instead of begging from western countries.
Unfortunately some people in Afghanistan has the bad habit of begging, and pretending that they hungry. There’s millions of Afghan that lives in the western countries that can help, and we get the support of western countries to bring back those criminals that stole billions of dollars would eliminate the poverty.
It’s the criminals in the western countries that has caused those hardship and miseries.
The previous government official looted billions of dollars and now they live a comfortable life in the western countries or the Gulf states
You love Islam, shariah law. You have them. Why are you complaining.? I don’t understand. So enjoy and be happy. Allah will bail you out.
It’s a shame that western countries create chaos and blame other people. Afghanistan has enough natural resources to feed people for many years, what the don’t need is thieves to steal it.
Can Biden fix the economy of US, can UK fix it’s economy.
The sons of bit**** have nothing to eat, they can’t feed their own people and still they can kill in the name of Allah, enjoy the most sophisticated of weapons. Each of these bastards deserves to be fed to the dogs, each of them is human waste, social defecation.
This is how the world will end up if Islam takes over the world as dominant religion 👎🏼
There root cause is only thing, ” The ideology “
On the road now!! awesome but with caution! Nice job Sandy.
This is what happens when you start to follow radical islam.
u all can highlight all the problems and blames Taliban. but what the solution to the global sanction? the world killing them slowly not the TAliban!
It sure would be a lot more manageable had the US not stoled $ 7 billion foreign reserve from Afghanistan of all countries
@MAC What’s your point? So there are no beggars or homeless in the US?
whatever is happening in Afghanistan is not because of Taliban. It’s because of US. Who created Taliban? Answer is US.
your translate is wrong .
Woman by original definition means “work of hands born in woe”… while man “work of hands ” as an monkey in the forest free.. male and female are different then man and woman in ancient writings.. or they would just used one.. on the 5th day “male female I am made them.. he made them male female.. but on the day of rest… or reflection he places a man in paradise.. not a male.. do you leaders in Afghanistan understand what Mahdi explains? Male and female are different entirely from man and woman in ancient orginal texts ??? Manos is “hands”..
Talibans must accept the fact that the only way for Afghanistan to succeed is CHANGE.. not backward but FORWARD
Taliban can’t fix economic crisis of Afghanistan. Neither Quran, nor hadits nor Sharia has any chapter on Allahs dictats on economics .
This is what happened during the new regime in Vietnam. people were so poor and hungry. it will take Afghanistan for twenty years until its sanction is lifted.
They show as if the economy collapsed after taliban but the truth is it collapsed before talibam during America rule
stupid taliban who you thing who are
America sanctions afghanistan then blames taliban, hahhaha
There’s a large piece of land that was empty. Farming is the solution for poverty.
Never recover even taliban take over nothing happened worse to worse
One year after Taliban hunger, joblessness and insecurity is everywhere in Afghanistan. One year after Taliban young girls schools are closed. No human rights for Afghan women and girls sometimes young boys are also getting attacked by Taliban. Afghan people are prisoners of the terrorist group Taliban trained in Fifty thousand madrasas by ISI in Pakistan. The aides of US and international goes to the Taliban members not ordinary people.
Also look at kensington philidelphia US ok..
Better than before
What assets in the West is the Taliban talking about. It is all western aid. Afghanistan never had any assets in the first place. Let the terrorists starve or die. Why should we care, especially those of us who have suffered Islamist terrorism. Let these terrorists, misogynists suffer a terrible fate
India will stand afgan again credit will take by Europe again,
Afghanistan’s economy has collapsed due to the looting of its reserves The West has plundered the reserves of various countries to their unbounded misery

The world should stop helping taliban and let them suffer to realize the they screw up themselves. We pray for innocent Afcan people there.
Wow, so the Us should just throw money at this country forever? They literally kill Americans if given the opportunity but as we always do, we go to places we are not wanted.
*THE LEGEND CONQUEROR TALIBANS*
*AFGHANISTAN THE NATION OF BRAVES*
Talibangers
No they can’t.
Qatar should take an example from those good moslems in Afghanistan… Even the UK, Sweden, France, Germany, Denmark, Canada, Australia NZ and more are all taking a very good example from Talibans… Mashallah they all turned to good devoted moslems
Well obviously the US, the remaining countries and Previous corrupte government of AFG is responsible for this condition.
The current GOVERNMENT does not have a magical stick which can change or slove the destruction of last more / around 50 years.
Let’s be clear on one thing and that is social value, beliefs are things which does not comes from nature but we (Humans) made it for our self.
Why the world is expecting AFG and every other country to follow the beliefs or values in the term of women rights and freedom of speech.
What’s sad is that they have mineral deposits in the mountains that could be mined worth trillions of dollars 💰💰💰
These westerners can’t see millions of homeless in their own respective countries 😂😂😂
They travel half around the globe 😂😂😂to guide other countries who are doing really well.
😂😂😂
😂😂😂😀😀😀😂😂😂
Americans are u listening.
This video ofcourse is not accessible in ur country 😂😂😂
Hypocrisy 😂😂😂.
Running a NGO in USA to feed the poor.
It never bcums news.
No support.
Media does not report.
Here they spend crores just to shoot a video half way around the globe.
What damages the US has done for past twenty years cannot be fixed within one year. It needs time and and resources, it needs international support to stand again.
Reporter : Your Country’s Economy is not showing good Results.
Taliban : Economy ?? What’s this ?
darshan chavhan : ignores america freezing afghanistans funds and the ingnorance of other countries to send help to afghanistan
What an amazing journalist. Thanks Sandra
This seems so unjust. The US ripped Afganistan unto pieces. They looted the country and no other country interfered or uttered a single word against them. And here, when they lost their brutal war and left the country without any compensation for what they did.
They’ve been in wars with the British, Russians, and lately with Americans for 20 years, Give them time, rome wasn’t built in a day, they just got rid of the invaders who been there for 20 years
Besst
Thanks to Indian govt ,they have open embassies and started aid
Sharia is only successful when you have oil…
The Taliban can help themselves. No country in the world recognised them as a government. Girls can’t go to school, women cannot work, the average family’s income is going to shrink don’t need to be a genius to understand that. Of course the country’s economy is going to shrink. The Taliban can help themselves. The world is not going to support a regime the bans women from school, that’s an extremist regime.
But they need democracy to do so…
West us responsible for the economic crisis. They start a war , destroy the basic infrastructure. Then leave, take Afghan money as compensation for 9/11 . And freeze all that remains. Pathetic. Egoestic , arrogant, beasts , animals .
Al Jazeera showing us their true stripes in this one. They really want us to legitimize the Taliban one step at a time
Isn’t it haram studying western(khafirs) education?
Very unambiguous world we are living. Weren’t the themselves who created the taleban back in 90s? But why not continue to support the taleban instead of trying to show the wrong picture them?
Isn’t there is a plan to defame the taleban or in the big picture to defame islam by deliberately trying to show the the connection 🤔
😂😂😂😂😂 no
This version of islam Al-Jazeera wants right in Afghanistan… Al-Jazeera please help them to fix the economy also by doing brokerage…As much as west responsible Al-Jazeera also responsible…
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In the UK every single family gave a huge sum over 20 years £2000 via our very high taxes and a lot of it just went on corruption. I am very glad we have left. The people gave in right away when the US withdrew and now they need to make their own lives. In the UK women laid down their lives in the early 1900s to gain equal rights.
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May Allah continue to support the Talibans to achieve their dream of establishing an Islamic state. I urge all Afghans to support their government to build their country. Allah will not let them alone inn Shaa Allah. The West and anti-islam will always depict a negative image of the Taliban. Long live Taliban and Afghanistan. Better days ahead.
I can’t help but shed a tear.