Muhammad Khurshid: Khuram is a photographer of The News.
Yes.It will certainly have bad affects on the journalism.
Rob Kall: any western correspondents hurt or correspondents for western media?Do any westerners use the Press club?
Muhammad Khurshid: Actually Khuram is all contributing photo to western news agencies.I am trying to find out the names.
But I will write it on my comments on your article.At the moment I did not remember all names.
Rob Kall: About the money making. Do reporters pay the Taliban for interviews?
Muhammad Khurshid: No.Actually these reporters get money from Taliban and then from their agencies.Taliban are actually illiterate people.And know nothing.They are just being used.
Rob Kall: By who?
Muhammad Khurshid: By the rulers of Pakistan.
And these journalists.As the US has been paying heavy amount to the government of Pakistan.And this way the journalists have also been earning the moneyI saw with my own eyes.
Rob Kall: So, US dollars are finding their way to the Taliban in Pakistan?
Muhammad Khurshid: Many journalists become millioners.
Yes.
Rob Kall: Please tell me more about this.
Muhammad Khurshid: I have a lot of details.But at the moment I will be impossible to convey full details.But I promise I provide you the details in a day or two.And this will be a breaking news.
Rob Kall: US money funneled to Taliban is a big story.
Muhammad Khurshid: Yes.It will be.And this is the fact.
UpdateOEN managing editor Cheryl Biren and Senior editor Scott Baker helped research this article, while the interview was ongoing.
This report from
THE GOBAL POST is one of many articles that corroborate Khurshid's report on US money going to the Taliban:
It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome
truth that most prefer to hide. In Afghanistan, one of the richest
sources of Taliban funding is the foreign assistance coming into the
country.
Virtually every major project includes a healthy cut for the
insurgents. Call it protection money, call it extortion, or, as the
Taliban themselves prefer to term it, "spoils of war," the fact remains
that international donors, primarily the United States, are to a large
extent financing their own enemy.
"Everyone knows this is going on," said one U.S. Embassy official, speaking privately.
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