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| Afghanistan facing insolvency within a month, say officials |
| 2011-06-18 |
| The Afghan government will struggle to pay its bills "within a month" after the International Monetary Fund rejected proposals for resolving the Kabul Bank scandal, western officials have warned. Although the war-torn country's biggest bank nearly collapsed last September, the government of Hamid Karzai and the international community are still at loggerheads over plans to fund an $820m (£507m) bailout as well as how the disgraced former managers and shareholders who helped themselves to hundreds of millions of dollars should be prosecuted. As long as the IMF declares the plans to be inadequate, many countries, including Britain, are legally barred from pumping money into a government that is almost completely reliant on foreign cash to pay civil servants' salaries. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 O is looking for the checkbook. The family should go over for a surprise pre-election run for the PR. Throw some Ben's around since some went missing. The signal now being sent is they will have to go back to their old farming ways to raise revenue. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-06-18 18:13 |
| #1 $820 million? That's not even the 'handling' fee for Pakistani, or even Greek, transactions. This is just Karzai's cut, right? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-06-18 10:51 |