The Taliban’s Statistics and Information Authority announced that in the last two years, it has distributed electronic identity cards to 4.6 million citizens of Afghanistan.
The Taliban officials said since the beginning of the digitisation process, electronic identity cards have been distributed to 10.7 million people across the country.
Taliban officials added that last year, the group distributed 1.5 million electronic ID cards to men and issued nearly one million electronic ID cards for women in Afghanistan.
According to the Taliban-controlled Bakhtar news agency, the Taliban claimed that as part of the anti-corruption efforts, in the past year, they have arrested forty illegal brokers. According to Taliban officials in the Statistics and Information Authority, the group investigated 130 cases of administrative corruption in one year, because of which four corruption cases have been handed over to the judicial bodies of the group and they have also fired nearly forty employees of the Taliban body.
