Police trucks and barbed wire are being used to secure the main branch of Kabul Bank to prevent a run on the bank, which has had $500 million withdrawn since fears of the institution's collapse began to spread last week. In response, authorities at the bank have frozen the assets of the bank's prinicpal owners; and the Afghan Central Bank is working with the U.S. Treasury Department to outline a rescue strategy. The New York Times foreign correspondent, Dexter Filkins explains whether the bank is really at risk of collapsing and how this crisis affects the country.
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