UN reportedly offers to pay Afghan Taliban nearly $6 million for protection of hundreds of its staffers and field offices
Proposed funds would be paid next year mostly to subsidise the monthly wages of Taliban soldiers guarding UN facilities.
The proposed funds would be paid next year mostly to subsidise the monthly wages of Taliban soldiers guarding UN facilities and to provide them a monthly food allowance under an expansion of an accord with the former US-backed Afghan government, the document reviewed by Reuters news agency showed. Many nations are striving to help the country of 39 million cope with food shortages amid a public services breakdown and an economic collapse accelerated by the US freezing of some $9 billion of Afghan bank reserves.