In Pictures: Taliban fighters man Afghanistan’s urban checkpoints

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Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan further than three and a half months ago amid the chaotic pullout of the United States- led foreign forces, its members have changed places, from fighting in the mountains and fields to getting an fortified force running the country.

Numerous Taliban bottom dogfaces now have new jobs manning checkpoints on the thoroughfares and carrying out security details in and around Afghan metropolises and municipalities.

Last month, several Taliban fighters posed for portrayal photos for The Associated Press news agency on night details and at checkpoints in the western megacity of Herat.

One of them, 21- time-old Ahmad Wali, was on command in the vill of Kamar Kalagh, north of Herat. A pupil in an Islamic religious academy known as a “ madrassa”, he said he joined the Taliban because he was against the American presence in his country and against the former Afghan government, which was extensively criticised for corruption.

Now, he said, he’s veritably busy with his new liabilities of furnishing security in the area he was assigned to. He hopes both he and his country will have a bright future, and said he was “ 99 percent sure” better days will come for all people in Afghanistan.

After the Taliban preemption inmid-August, Afghanistan’s formerly dilapidated and aid-dependent frugality careened into a full-bloated extremity. The transnational community has withheld hundreds of millions of bones in backing that the country of 38 million people reckoned on. Billions of bones in Afghan means abroad have been firmed.

Afghanistan’s banking system has been largely cut off from the world, and the new Taliban autocrats have been largely unfit to pay hires, while jobs across the frugality have faded.

Women have been substantially barred from the job request, except in certain professions, and from high academy education, while knockouts of thousands of people, including largely educated professionals, have fled or are trying to flee Afghanistan, leading to a massive brain drain.

Then are some pictures of Taliban fighters who posed for prints at colorful checkpoints in the western megacity of Herat, the third largest in Afghanistan.