Taliban Financing

The resurgence of the Taliban and affiliated militant groups has been financed primarily by drug money and related crimes. The Haqqani Network relies heavily on income from general criminal activities like extortion and kidnapping. Across the border in western Pakistan, the home base for the Pakistani Taliban and an outpost of the extended Haqqani Network, kidnapping and smuggling are seen as central to financing the militants. Al-Qaeda receives little money from the drug trade and depends mostly on donors from the Persian Gulf area.

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