Thought experiment:
What if you just accepted this and went all-in on it, with a dash of MMT and tech, as follows...
Give every Afghan a smartphone.
Lock it way down. Provide a social networking platform that you can monitor. Include a "Fed.ly" banking app. You can control account balances.
Also build stores that accept Fedbucks, to ensure they have value. Basically, Fedbucks would be backed by food, and stuff from China.
Next, require some time consuming activity of Afghans, which is not too obnoxious, but which can't be faked. It needs to produce trustworthy proof-of-work.
For example, it could be like Pokemon Go, with GPS trajectories being proof of work. Or CAPTCHAs. Or taking photographs or videos of different places. Or any combination of these activities. Actually, if you do the GPS waypoint thing, you could have them carry passengers while they're at it.
(You could also imagine using Jira tickets for this, but the interface is a little too clunky.)
Then, on receipt of proof-of-work, deposit money into the accounts.
People will be too busy with these activities to fight you. That activity -- which provides them with food and flip-flops -- will be much easier than fighting. And it will also be easier than whatever they had done before to earn a living. So they will do it.
And if ever you start to see resistance, just increase the wages. Eventually people will comply.
In a way, this was the model behind the Afghan Army. It was UBI in exchange for bullshit. But it kept those men out of trouble, so long as the US was paying.
My proposal is that this model be rolled out, indefinitely, across the entire country, and made attractive enough that even members of the Taliban will do it.
If you insist that this system actually produce economic output, you could organize activities in support of mining or other sectors.
The key is that it has to be much more profitable for an individual to play along, than either to grow poppies, or to fight back.
If you hype it properly, you might even be able to fund it with Softbank money.