Kabul Bank is a private bank. A monopoly, if you like: the only avenue for government employees to receive their salaries.
A great money making machine. A bank that likes to say its "Touching Hearts, Changing Lives" - it certainly has for its shareholders.
In America’s attempt to break the stranglehold of the informal cash economy, mostly the hawalas - used to transfer vast amounts of money that they fear is driving the insurgency and drugs trade - they've inadvertently created a behemoth on an Afghan scale.
In fact, Western Union is the preferred partner for remittances.
I want to share some numbers with you.
![[QODLink]](http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2012/5/24/2012524105149565734_16.jpg "The Brotherhood and Mubarak")
