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Afghan budget

An Afghan economist has said that the new budget would probably be only a quarter of that for 2021. He might have been overly cynical, but in the absence of recognition by the comity of nations, the going is bound to be tough on the fiscal front.

‘US role has been shameful’

He was Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan from 1995 to 1998, during which he visited Afghanistan several times and reviewed the progress of India’s infrastructure projects there