 "A Pakistani paramilitary soldier, right, and Taliban fighters stand guard on their respective sides at a border crossing point between Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Torkham, in Khyber district, Pakistan")
A year ago, when Taliban fighters entered Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, former president Ashraf Ghani fled the nation to avoid ‘bloodshed’. Hours after his departure, the Taliban took control of the presidential palace in Kabul, marking the end of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The Taliban swept the entire nation in August 2021 and reinstated the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
A year into the Taliban’s rule over Afghanistan, the nation’s economy, which was already suffering over the past few decades due to permanent war, has only worsened. Since the Taliban’s takeover of the war-torn nation, many development agencies have
