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Afghan Taliban want telecom infrastructure 'protection tax'

2016-01-18 09:45:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) The Taliban are demanding a "protection tax" from Afghan mobile phone companies, industry and militant sources told AFP. At a secret meeting last month near the Pakistani city of Quetta, the Taliban's central leadership formally demanded the tax from representatives of four mobile companies in exchange for not damaging their sites or harming their employees.

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