Commander Ahmad Massoud

just those legitimate incomes of the country from ports and taxes and the other stuff.

The Taliban are having $2.5 billion income annually.

And the aid that is going to them, 70 million weekly, it is not conditioned that, okay, tell me where are you spending all of those money?

All those $2.5 billion that they are getting annually is being expended on brutally destroy the people of Afghanistan,

to more consolidate themselves, to consolidate their terrorist groups in Afghanistan, to more create these jihadi madrassas, to radicalize people even more.

So all of it are being used for consolidation of themselves and increasing their war power and helping their regional and international terrorist groups.

To your knowledge,

Well, I believe the Taliban at this moment, they do not have a strategic friend.

Every relationship they are having so far, it has been tactical, and they are seeing Taliban as a short-term partner, not a long-term strategic partner.

I don't think America is their ally.

However, it is unfortunate to even think that America is in a sort of fruitful engagement with them.

which so far for the past three years, I don't know what was the benefit that they give for America, but so far for the people of Afghanistan, it was zero and it was very destructive.

But with the other countries, the Taliban's relationship, even with the Pakistan, which for many years they had a sanctuary over there, it turned sour.

because the Taliban are trying to export this terrorism everywhere.

So therefore, in my opinion, their relationship with other countries, it's not a strategic, it's tactical.

Everyone is scared of what's happening in Afghanistan.

However, indeed, those years that they fought against America truly created some, let's say, shared experience with many country that they invested for killing Americans alongside the Taliban.

Well, with Chinese, I'm very much disappointed with the sort of policies they are having.

In my opinion, they're seeing Taliban as an alternative to presence of NATO in Afghanistan.

Even if they think Taliban are bad, but they see the presence of NATO in Afghanistan worse.