> Road to ruin: Double tax and bandits on the Pakistan-Afghan trade route / V000_9H286Z
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Road to ruin: Double tax and bandits on the Pakistan-Afghan trade route / V000_9H286Z
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The Taliban’s capture of a key Afghan-Pakistan border post has hiked trucking costs between the two countries, with insurgents and government officials taxing traders for their goods and demanding bribes to allow them through. Thousands of vehicles cross daily from Chaman in southwestern Pakistan to Spin Boldak on the other side, carrying goods destined for Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-biggest city. "We have been extorted at least three times," says a Spin Boldak resident transporting grapes through the area. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES