Top Afghan Minister Resigns, Leaves Country Amid Taliban Advances

Top Afghan Minister Resigns, Leaves Country Amid Taliban Advances
Ameen Habibi (R), Afghan deputy finance minister for policy, and Khalid Payenda, senior adviser to the Afghan minister of finance, are seen in Washington on April 15, 2016. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
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Afghanistan’s finance minister on Wednesday resigned from his post and left the beleaguered country as the Taliban terrorist group is making significant advances across the country in recent days.

Khalid Payenda has “resigned and left the country because Afghanistan is grappling with declining revenues after the takeover of the custom posts,” Finance Ministry spokesman Mohammad Rafi Tabe told Bloomberg News.
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