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The Taliban of 2021 look very different, on TV news clips, from the Taliban of the late 1990s. For one, the quality of telecast has no doubt improved but so has the visual getup of the Afghan militant outfit.
Their weapons look brand new and shining; their Humvee or Humvee type vehicles are in perfect running order; the clothes they wear look clean and new; their neat coiffure a significant departure from the tousled looks of yore.
In 2016, Forbes listed Taliban as the fifth richest of the 10 'Terrorist' organisations that they had featured. ISIS had a turnover then of 2 billion USD and was top dog, Taliban at number five had a modest annual turnover of $400 million.
Forbes listed Taliban's primary sources of revenue as drug trafficking, protection money and donations, and this was 2016 when it was not even the dominant force in Afghanistan.
According to a NATO confidential report accessed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty the annual budget of the Taliban in financial year 2019-20 had been $1.6 Billion, a 400 per cent increase in four years when compared to the Forbes figures of 2016.
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