From our partners at The Agonist
Tim Gaynor | Kabul | Sept 8
Reuters – * Angry customers demand their money
* Run on funds ahead of three-day holiday
* Central bank orders all but one Kabulbank branch to close
Afghan security forces used batons on unruly customers scrambling to withdraw their savings on Wednesday from a branch of the graft-hit Kabulbank, the country’s biggest private financial institution.
Kabulbank’s troubles have threatened to add a financial crisis to Afghanistan’s other woes, with military and civilian casualties at record levels as a Taliban-led insurgency grows and ahead of parliamentary elections on Sept. 18.
Officers from the National Security Directorate struggled to maintain control of up to 200 people outside one branch in the capital as desperate customers tried to take out money ahead of a three-day Muslim holiday.
Sheesh, how dare these customers wanting to get their money before it is stolen..
