Taliban say begging crackdown accelerated in Kabul and provinces
The Taliban administration said the collection of beggars in Kabul and some provinces has accelerated, and the programme was reviewed at the monthly meeting of the Commission for Collecting and Preventing Extortion.
The meeting was held under the leadership of Alhaj Sheikh Abdul Rahman Munir, deputy minister for counter-narcotics at the Taliban-run Interior Ministry, and was attended by deputy ministers from the relevant ministries and representatives of the anti-extortion commission from independent bodies.
According to Abdul Rahman Munir, the meeting examined the process of gathering beggars and delivering aid to people in need. He claimed that in recent weeks more attention had been given to the issue so that necessary assistance could be provided to beggars in need.
He also thanked representatives of the relevant ministries and cooperating directorates for their support in collecting beggars and providing vocational training for them, and expressed hope that the process would be managed and organised more effectively.
In addition, deputy ministers from the relevant ministries and representatives of the anti-begging commission in independent bodies stressed the need to continue cooperation and increase coordination in the collection of beggars and related areas.
Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has in recent years faced rising poverty and the spread of begging in different parts of the city, an issue that has repeatedly become one of the social challenges in the centre and the provinces.
