Afghanistan’s acting deputy prime minister, Abdul Ghani Baradar, speaks during the inauguration ceremony of a Mes Aynak copper deposit mining project, in Shast Bandari area of Mohammad Agha district at Logar province, Afghanistan, on July 24, 2024. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images
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Afghanistan’s Taliban regime has torn up the only major resource contract it has signed since retaking power in 2021, accusing its Chinese partner of failing to invest the money, drill the oil wells, or hire the workers it pledged.
