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Afghanistan with Roh Yakobi
Rahmatullah Nabil: The story of an Afghan spymaster (Part 2)
Ep. 37
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Rahmatullah Nabil is an Afghan politician and former intelligence chief. Having lost his father at the age of one, he was raised by his mother, who dedicated her life to him. Nabil left school and joined one of the Mujahideen factions as a teenager. An ambush on Soviet forces, during which he was injured, and the discovery of a handwritten letter belonging to a Soviet soldier, changed his life. This led him to become a refugee in Pakistan, where he graduated from university and worked for the UN. He eventually joined the Afghan Republic government, becoming the country’s spymaster and later a presidential candidate. In this interview, he shares his extraordinary life story, and his thoughts and hopes for Afghanistan.
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Is the integrity of Afghanistan’s central bank under threat?
Afghanistan is one of the poorest and most dangerous places in the world, and many of its institutions are in very weak condition. Its central bank, however, appeared to be an exception. Outside officials who worked with Bank of Afghanistan (DAB) often described it as an independent institution staffed by dedicated professionals. But close observers – in Afghanistan and abroad – have told Central Banking that the DAB’s integrity may now be under threat – from the country’s own president and the bank’s current acting governor, whom the Afghan parliament voted against confirming as governor on December 2.
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The DAB was established in 1939, when Afghanistan was ruled by King Zahir Shah. It continued to function after Soviet troops invaded in 1978 and during the civil war that raged after they left in 1989. In 1996, the Afghan capital Kabul was taken over by the Taliban, a fundamentalist militia that went on to conquer most of the country. The Taliban took control of the central bank, but during their five years of rule, the DAB seems barely to have functioned.
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Afghanistan intelligence foremost resigns centre of row
The head of Afghanistan intelligence use, Rahmatullah Nabil, has resign citing "pressures from Chairman Ashraf Ghani".
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