Tuesday April 28, 2009
Poor and Unemployed, Young Afghan Men Turning to Part-Time Work for the Taliban
Fetrat Zerak
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Says one 22-year-old with a family of eight: "I'm just fighting for the money. If I find another job, I'll leave this one as soon as possible."
Abdullah Jan and Abdul Khaleq are both from the Pushtrod district of Farah province in western Afghanistan. Both are young, unemployed, and seek work as day laborers, for which they get about 200 afghani (4 US dollars) per job.
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