JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Hundreds of orange orchards have ripened in the Batikot district of eastern Nangarhar province, but farmers complain the Taliban are exorbitantly taxing them.
They allege the Taliban are collecting from them higher taxes than the government on their orange gardens -- Nangarhar a claim corroborated by the canalisation department. However, officials say the money the Taliban are collecting is not adequate to fund the conflict.
Around 1,000 orange orchards on 1,500 acres of land -- irrigated by the canalisation system -- are ripe. The gardens are . . .
