KARACHI -- An Afghan Taliban drive to stabilize the economy and improve sentiment toward the regime through new mining deals with Chinese and other companies is drawing skepticism.
Faced with international sanctions and a bleak economic outlook, the Taliban administration at the end of last month announced seven contracts worth $6.5 billion for the extraction and processing of gold, iron ore, lead and zinc across several provinces.
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