The Afghan Taliban government has signed a 25-year contract with a Chinese company for the extraction of oil from Afghanistan’s Amu River basin.

Taliban signs oil extraction deal with Chinese company

Afghanistan may be one of the poorest nations in the world but it sits on a vast resource of minerals deposits among them most crucial is Lithium. Eyeing these reserves is now China.

Chinese firms explore Lithium projects in Afghanistan

Afghanistan said to have mineral reserves worth billion of dollars but prolonged state of war have prevented the govt from monitising them. But, that has not stopped the Taliban.

Afghanistan govt failed to monitise the mineral reserves while Taliban earned million