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Dissatisfied Taliban leaders want to remove supreme leader

According to Brookings Institution, an American think-tank, senior Taliban leaders are frustrated by their supreme leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada and his “Kandahar-based clique” and want to replace him with a Leadership Council

Talibanomics

Talibanomics: crippling taxes on a starving people in a collapsed economy

Extracting taxes has become the group’s main source of revenue. But for many, the taxes imposed are arbitrary and extortionate, with no services delivered in return. KabulNow spoke to people across Afghanistan to see how the Taliban taxes had impacted them and the businesses.

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