The author cites leaked papers said to come from the Taliban’s General Intelligence Directorate (GDI) that earmark about AFN 70.7 million for psychological operations, if genuine. In a country short of jobs and services, that spend is read as regime survival over welfare.

Alleged aims: shape opinion online, split resistance groups, and blame Pakistan for problems the piece treats as mainly domestic. Real border and security disputes with Islamabad are distinguished from organized propaganda.

The argument: manufactured support is not legitimacy. Coercion plus narrative control can hide hardship; it cannot create work, schools, or clinics. If the leak is real, the author says Kabul is buying perception, not solving the crisis.

Afghanistan’s enduring crisis is often measured in terms of poverty, unemployment, humanitarian distress and institutional weakness. Yet, according to leaked documents attributed to the Taliban regime’s General Intelligence Directorate (GDI), another dimension of the country’s crisis is becoming increasingly visible: the allocation of state resources toward psychological warfare and political propaganda. The documents reportedly indicate an allocation of approximately AFN 70.7 million for activities aimed at influencing public opinion, targeting opponents, creating divisions among resistance groups and placing blame on Pakistan. If authentic, these revelations offer a revealing insight into the priorities of a regime that appears increasingly concerned with controlling the political narrative rather than addressing the structural problems confronting Afghan society.

The reported expenditure is significant not merely because of its financial value, but because of what it represents politically. In a country where millions continue to struggle with poverty, unemployment, inadequate public services and economic insecurity, the allocation of tens of millions of Afghanis to information operations raises fundamental questions about........

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