Taliban calls on US Congress to release frozen Afghan assets

I request … so that doors for unborn relations are opened, means of Afghanistan’s Central Bank are defrosted and warrants on our banks are lifted,” he wrote, while advising the profitable fermentation at home could lead to trouble abroad, egging mass migration that “ will accordingly produce farther philanthropic and profitable issues”.

Washington has seized nearly$9.5 bn in means belonging to the Afghan central bank since the Taliban took power. In October, Deputy United States Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told a US Senate commission he saw no situation where the Taliban would be allowed to pierce the Afghan central bank reserves

.Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s aid-dependent frugality has effectively collapsed – with civil retainers overdue for months and the storeroom unfit to pay for significances.

While concerned nations have pledged hundreds of millions of bones in aid, numerous are reticent to commit finances unless the Taliban agrees to a further inclusive government and to guarantee the rights of women and nonages.

“ I present to you our respects and would like to partake a many studies on our bilateral relations,” Muttaqi wrote, noting that 2021 was the centenary of Washington recognising Afghanistan’s independence.

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