Next month, Afghanistan’s regime will be heading to Geneva for its annual fundraising, seeking support from international donors. Nineteen years into the war, and with peace potentially on the horizon, this could be a challenge.
Experts say that the Afghan government will get reduced pledges, chiefly because of uncertainty over how the intra-Afghan peace talks are going, and what Afghanistan is going to look like with the US withdrawing.
Afghanistan’s World Bank director says the need for funds is growing because of covid, and that peace could be at risk if the government doesn’t get its annual donations. Some analysts say they see donors as trying to buy influence over post-war Afghanistan.
There is no word of Taliban involvement in the Geneva meeting, and it’s not clear if they are even invited. This could be a chance to answer questions about future Afghanistan, but the Ghani government probably doesn’t want to reduce its own apparent control over the situation with the talks still ongoing.
Such a worn out mechanism for propping up a vassal government. While mysterious ISIS (paid by whom) causes mayhem , making sure that the successful campaign by Afghan tribes to remove foreign troops from the land hits the snag.
What a colossal waste of American money and global gravitas. Without a clue — we stumble from problem to problem, increase costs to taxpayer, and diminish our own security.
Until funding sources of such mysterious organizations such as HTS and ISIS are discovered , taxpayers are just taken for fools.