Editor in Chief: Moh. Reza Huwaida Tuesday, April 30th, 2024

Unemployment Excels Throughout the Country

International Community has been issuing billions of dollar bills for stabilizing our war-torn country. Since mid 2001; when the World Trade Center explosion incident took place, Afghanistan has been the focal point of international aids and supports. We have been profiting billions of international aids and military supports for a decade and many of our fellow countrymen got the opportunity of crediting their accounts with millions of dollar.

It was really a golden chance for our leaders and ruling figures for getting out of the crisis and rebuild the fundamental infrastructures of the country so that after the international community withdrawal, the employment graph would not have fallen down up to "35% of unemployment rate," according to CIA's estimation of unemployment rate in 2008. The figure should have doubled now.

International Community has passed around $60 billion bill to Afghanistan up to now. But due to lack of capacity and high corruption rate in government structure, the funds are not spent efficiently. There have been two very widespread challenges that Afghan government has been facing during the last decade of dollar rain on the country;
(1) Security rivalries in southern and eastern parts of the country,
(2) High rate of corruption in government structure. The majority of the funds instead of being invested on large infrastructure such as the extraction of the natural resources which could lead the country's economy towards stability and independency are billed for security establishments and to the high ranked government officials' bank accounts.

As a result, after ten years of sacrificing thousands of innocent lives, and tolerating a bloodshed era, the leading counterpart of the government (USA) declares the failure possibilities of the ongoing projects in the country due to lack of competency in government structures.

The unemployment rate in Afghanistan in 2008 was estimated around 35%, according to a report published on CIA's World Fact Book page. Afghanistan has been the only country that has garnered most of the International Community's attention and aids during the last one decade.

There have been thousands of International and National NGOs recruiting hundreds of experts and manual labors in different fields. The NGOs have created millions of employment opportunities for Afghan national and international citizens. But as the withdrawal of international combat troops is getting closer and closer, the job security and opportunities are getting narrowed down. The NGOs are not hiring new employees; in fact, they are in process of downsizing the organization instead of creating new job opportunities.

There are no new contracts and the ongoing contracts are all dead lined up to 2014. The business markets are all in pause mode and every one waits for the consequences of the war against terrorists by the end of 2014.