{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Exorbitant Salaries for Consultants and Officials in Afghanistan Part 1","author_name":"Kamran Mir Hazar, \nRobert Maier","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article1859.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article1859.html'\u003EExorbitant Salaries for Consultants and Officials in Afghanistan Part 1\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis article is based on a letter signed by Mohammad Amin Farhang, former Minister of the Economy and current Minister of Commerce to an official of the World Bank in Kabul showing Afghan economic advisor, Adib Farhadi, as director Interim Afghanistan National Development Strategy (I-ANDS) had received an annual salary of $290,500.  This is $100,000 more than the U.S. Senate Majority Leader, and is an example of the huge payments made to certain well-connected, but dubiously qualified (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}