RASC News Agency: Newly disclosed figures from the Taliban administration reveal that the Office of the Prime Minister has been among the regime’s most heavily funded institutions, consuming over 19 billion Kabul rupees in the past three and a half years. This substantial budget has been distributed across three key departments: the High Office of the Prime Minister, the General Directorate of Administrative Affairs, and the Directorate for the Protection of the Prime Minister. Of particular note, the Directorate for the Protection of the Prime Minister alone has spent more than 4.5 billion Kabul rupees equivalent to over $63 million. This extraordinary sum, allocated solely to safeguard Mullah Hassan Akhund, comes at a time when Afghanistan remains deeply reliant on international aid, with its people grappling with extreme poverty and economic collapse.
While millions of Afghanistani citizens struggle to afford basic necessities, the Taliban have directed an exorbitant amount of resources toward shielding their elderly leader a man who, under normal circumstances, would not even be deemed fit to serve as a mosque imam in Kandahar due to his advanced age. The stark irony lies in the fact that while the Taliban spent two decades coercing the sons of impoverished Afghanistani villagers into sacrificing their lives in the name of ‘jihad’ and ‘martyrdom,’ they now refuse to face the same fate themselves. These leaders, who once glorified death in battle as a divine honor, are now spending tens of millions to ensure their own survival.
If they truly believed in their own rhetoric of martyrdom and divine destiny, why do they flee from it so desperately?
