Afghanistan wealthier than we thought

A small team of US geologists and Pentagon officials recently identified $1 Trillion worth of unharvested mineral deposits in Afghanistan. In a country which lacks economic sovereignty this type of finding is like hitting the Domestic Product JACKPOT for Afghanistan. Currently the country's GDP is roughly $12B/year and is mainly comprised of drug trafficking and Poppy harvesting (opium production). The question becomes what sort of change will this new found wealth bring the country occupied by both the Taliban and the corrupt Karzai government?


-Nicho