KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In parts of Afghanistan where there are no street names or house numbers, utility companies and their customers have adopted a creative approach for connecting. They use mosques as drop points for bills and cash, a “pay and pray” system.
Now the national postal service wants to phase this out by putting mailboxes on every street across the country, part of a plan to modernize a service long challenged by bureaucracy and war.
The lofty aspirations include introducing access to shopping via e-commerce sites and issuing debit cards for online purchases. It will be a leap in a country where most of the population is unbanked, air cargo is in its infancy and international courier companies don’t deliver even to the capital, Kabul.
The changes mean Afghans will pay higher service fees, a challenge as more than half the population already relies on humanitarian aid to survive.
The Afghan Post, like much of the country, still does everything on paper. “Nobody uses email,” said its business development director, Zabihullah Omar. “Afghanistan is a member of the Universal Postal Union, but when we compare ourselves to other countries it is at a low level and in the early stages.” . . Post offices in Afghanistan are vital for women wanting to access services or products they would otherwise be denied, since they are often barred from entering ministries or other official premises.
But the spectre of the Taliban’s edicts targeting women and girls also looms at the Afghan Post.
At the entrance to the main Kabul branch, a sign tells women to correctly wear hijab, or the Islamic headscarf. One picture shows a woman with a red cross over her visible face. The other has a green check mark over the face because only her eyes are seen.
Where did the Afghan infrastructure go? Did America forget to build any while they were busy raping Afghani children?
Oh no the Taliban builds a post office the horror. Quick America please save some those women by blowing them all up with an Apache helicopters.
Wow projecting really hard here, aren't you? The institutionalized child rape perpetrated by the Taliban has been very well documented. Read "The Kite Runner" or watch the movie adaptation.
You want really hard for everyone that's against America to be the good guys, but that's just not how things work in the real world. The Taliban are horrible monsters. The world isn't good guys and bad guys, just a lot of shades of grey. And the Taliban is darkest shade of grey out there.
Sorry what's this mate?
https://youtu.be/Ja5Q75hf6QI?t=51m20s
I dunno... something about pedophilia being rampant in Afghanistan and the the US wasn't doing enough about it and now the pedos are back running the place again?
Oh strange those were US government supported pedophiles doing the pedophelia and child rape. All while being supplied with weapons and military support. Without repercussions.
And American top officials saying on video the US backed forces raping children is fine. You left that out.
The Taliban banned this by the way you are projecting.