Over the past 13 years, Afghanistan’s economy has had a noteworthy growth, although it continues to be fragile. It is fact that despite injection of billions of dollars of aid into Afghan economy, it has terribly failed to benefit the poor section of the society.

Afghanistan’s economy has been unable to create adequate job opportunities. This has doubled the problems borne by the vicious circle of poverty. A major portion of Afghan population is formed by youths. Most of these are uneducated and unskilled. But finding employment is a difficult task even for educated Afghans including fresh university graduates.

Currently thousands of Afghans work for foreign companies, NGOs, military forces and other international organizations. Who will employ these people once the West pulls out its troops and civilians from Afghanistan? Definitely, the graph of unemployed will go higher.As the international community is diminishing its role here, the employment opportunities for Afghanistan are expected to further shrink. Reduction of foreign aids to Afghanistan will affect its economy – an economy that is already failing to fulfill the employment needs of the masses.

As the future continues to remain uncertain, bad security persists and employment opportunities are shrinking, the hopes of Afghan people are fading away. The security condition is expected to further deteriorate. This will hamper the little reconstruction and developmental works and business activities in certain provinces of Afghanistan. As a result, more Afghans will go unemployed.  

Persistence of the problem of unemployment in the country is doing much to widen the gap between people and the government. Among the several problems given birth by joblessness, three of them seem to be very concerning: Firstly, it is firmly believed that desperate youths join the insurgents groups who promise them attractive rewards. This can be conceived a major reason for soaring number of insurgents and insecurity graph in Afghanistan. Secondly, people who eventually give up hope after continuously failing to get a job might get addicted to drugs. The number of drug addicts in the country has crossed the figure of 1.5 million. Majority of addicted people are those who have failed to find a proper source of income for them. And thirdly, every year thousands Afghans travel, at the risk of their lives, to other countries of the world to escape poverty and unemployment. In this way the work force of Afghanistan is utilized by other countries at times when Afghanistan itself is in dire need of reconstruction and developmental works.