Found out what is so attractive in Dubai...[china,Pakistan,Afghanistan+U.S. are talking]
Washington Post: “The new Taliban leader whose shadow hangs over Afghan peace talks”
[Mansour] had inherited a fleet of damaged planes but had no idea how to fix them. Unlike other ministers, he actively recruited communists who had fled the country.
“He started to collect technicians and engineers,” Mojda said, “and slowly, slowly, they started to repair these aircraft.”
“He was trafficking drugs using the airlines,” said Niazi, now Mansour’s rival but at the time a Taliban governor and spokesman. “I have seen it with my own eyes. He was sending drugs to Dubai inside candy wrappers.”
Current and former officials from the United States, the United Nations and Afghanistan concur.
“Mansour sits atop a drug network that nets the Taliban more than $200 million a year.”
ooops. Here is the link to the article by Michael E. Miller