Poverty is the most dreaded issue in the daily lives of millions of Afghan people, especially those who live outside the capital city of Kabul. Even within the capital, a large number of people continue to suffer from the challenge of how to meet the ends. It is believed that a large number of people are turning to militant groups like the Taliban who pay their fighters. The peace crisis is therefore intimately related to poverty and the contestants for the coming presidential election are focusing on poverty eradication as their lead priority. The current president Hamid Karzai’s main opponent Ashraf Ghani Ahmedzai, for example, is pledging to create one million jobs for the poor Afghans in case he wins the election. Other candidates are also vowing poverty alleviation in the country. However, the general public appears to doubt the honesty of these claims. The think of the poverty-reduction claims as the self-interested slogans of corrupt politicians.