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Unemployment forces Kunduz youth to join rebels’ ranks

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KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): Some educated youth have no choice but to join ranks of insurgents in northern Kunduz province, an official said.

Abdul Ghafoor Hotak, youth director at information and culture department, told Pajhwok Afghan News in the last five years they could not provide employment opportunities in government departments for over 1,200 youth having bachelors and masters’ degrees and 18 with doctorates.

Some of these youth, he said, due to poverty and unemployment had no choice but to take up arms against the government.

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