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According to the British newspaper "Independent", during the annual Herat Security Dialogue on the situation in Afghanistan in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, the former head of the Afghanistan *** Bureau, Rahmatullah Nabil, said that perhaps out of jealousy of North Korea, the Taliban are equally ambitious and want to have a symbol of modern military power - nuclear **.
Nabil said he had credible information that the Taliban were considering buying the ** from Pakistan or outsourcing it to some engineers. He also alarmistly noted that that the possibility was too dangerous to be brought to the attention of the international community and that the world could not focus solely on restricting women's rights at the expense of its strategic objectives. In particular, when the US military hastily withdrew from Afghanistan, they already had a considerable number of NATO advanced **.
However, the panelists agreed that the Taliban have neither the ability nor the motivation to do so.
Dr. Arian Sherify, an expert on international security and a professor of public and international affairs at Princeton University, believes that the move would impose a huge political burden on the Taliban and make them pay a heavy price, despite their ability to obtain nuclear **. Now they are working for themselves to gain a legitimate place in the international arena and international recognition.
In addition, he added, given the current state of Afghanistan's economy, the Taliban simply do not have the financial and technical capacity to purchase, provide and maintain nuclear weapons.
Other experts believe that even though there is a small force within the Taliban talking about acquiring nuclear weapons, their primary goal so far has been to take control of Afghanistan, with the main threat coming from the Islamic State and small resistance forces in the country. Experts are confident that now the Taliban will not be threatened from any country, only the military needs of counter-terrorism, therefore, they are mainly focused on finding a strategic level ** to deal with the rebels, at least for the time being, and in the near future, they do not need it.
In fact, recent reports show that the Taliban seem to be focusing on economic development. They fight drugs, build roads, dig wells, and even ** some U.S. military equipment to improve Afghanistan's economy. Judging by the current situation, they really don't need nuclear **.
On drugs, a recent United Nations report noted that opium cultivation had fallen by 95 per cent in Afghanistan, with the country's opium cultivation falling from 233,000 hectares last year to 10,800 hectares this year. People of the "opium race" are turning to crops such as wheat.
In terms of infrastructure, it is reported that after the Taliban visit to China, they may apply for loans from the AIIB against Afghan minerals such as lithium and copper, and bid for Chinese companies to help them build a number of roads to open a passage between the two mountains. In addition, local Afghan companies have undertaken construction projects, such as Highway 209, which connects Kandahar to Uruzgan, which were built by the Taliban themselves.
At the same time, eight oil wells in the Amu oil field in Afghanistan's Sarpur province have also started construction, and the Taliban's economic head attended and cut the ribbon for them, saying that the oil proceeds will be used to build large hospitals, highways, dams, and provide jobs for thousands of people.
The Taliban also want to open up the Wakhan Corridor, pass through Afghanistan, connect Iran with China, and connect Afghanistan's Kandahar Railway with Iran's Chabahar, making Afghanistan an intermediate hub with Iran, China, Uzbekistan and other countries, making full use of its geographical advantages to become an important transportation hub connecting Asia and the Middle East.
All this suggests that the Taliban** are trying to develop their economy. In view of the fact that the Herat Security Dialogue was organized by the United States as a former Afghan organization in order to form a united front with certain countries to jointly fight the Taliban, Nabil, as the head of the former intelligence department, has to carefully consider how true and how false what he said.
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