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The NGO community in Afghanistan has grown into an industry where a large part of aid budgets is spent on security and money gets frittered away on pointless projects.
Ramazan Bashardost is a former presidential candidate who is an outspoken critic of corruption in Afghanistan. "Whenever a foreign aid worker is killed nowadays," he said, "many Afghans simply shrug their shoulders and think, 'So what? That's one less thief. They don't do anything for us anyway. They're merely weapons in the Taliban's hands.'"
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