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The brothers say a key to their success has been their comfort with volatile situations, which they attribute to growing up in a region often lacking political and socioeconomic stability.

"Afghanistan lacks a competent or cooperative central authority for issuing passports or civil documents and it does not have appropriate screening and vetting measures."

Reports of those concerns have now resurfaced online, sparking accusations around a lack of transparency.

He was referring, we presume, to the lack of GitHub postings by some non-governmental analysts such as the Yale Budget Lab or the Tax Foundation.

She got a place to study at Cambridge University but, struggling to cope with a lack of support, she dropped out and found herself sleeping rough and going between squats.