Forgive us if, in the midst of this exciting armchair waltz underway in Kabul, our attention falls all on Haji Mohammad Idris, the new governor of the Central Bank of Afghanistan. The fact is that we have always been fascinated by “irregular” and Idris seems to have all the requisites of the case well written in his curriculum. On the contrary: it is so irregular that it is not even clear what his curriculum is. Unspecified age like Eriberto, born in 1979 who played in Chievo, but in reality his name was Luciano and he was born in 1975. Surname that refers to the only character who made the Juventus fans sympathetic to non-Juventus players.
He will have to deal with very delicate issues, because liquidity for the Taliban is a much bigger grain than the Panjshir rebels, between ATMs running out of cash and prices of essential goods that skyrocket, but he did not study at Harvard like his predecessor, there by the Americans. He did not even study finance and economics, although for 20 years he chaired the Taliban’s economics commission. And, surprise of the surprises, he is not even a fine exegete of the Koran: he has been there for 20 years because, according to what they say, he knows how to be a concrete person. It seems that the role of his commission was to illegally “tax” entrepreneurs and peasants who came across the Taliban, to finance the political and military activities of the group. Because the Taliban, while wanting punished women, retain an ancient passion for lace.
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Don’t expect quantitave easing, because Idris is not Mario Draghi and neither is Christine Lagarde: he doesn’t have a bazooka. On the other hand, in one of his first photographic appearances at his desk, he uses a Kalashnikov as a paperweight, while with his right hand he titillates the touchpad of the Dell PC. And here we come to the point: we will know little about Idris but, if the Taliban have put him there, apparently it is because of his proven skills as a “problem solver”. Because, as the Prophet said, “true wealth does not derive from the abundance of material goods, but from a serene mind”. With Idris as governor of the central bank, Afghanistan can rest easy.