The US seized $7 billion from Afghanistan, which left the country before the Taliban took power.

Dozens of Afghan women protested Friday in Kabul over US President Joe Biden’s decision to seize $7 billion of Afghan assets and spend half of them on compensation payments to 9/11 victims. September 2001, instead of allowing the use of those funds to deal with the humanitarian catastrophe facing that nation.

The Afghan women called on Biden to reconsider his stance on the grounds that the country is sinking into a deepening economic crisis and that assets must remain to support the economy.

The president’s decision comes after interim Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s talks with a US official in Doha, Qatar, to whom he expressed that the decision to hold those assets is unacceptable.

The Taliban warned this week that they would reconsider their policy towards the United States if Washington does not reverse the decision to seize those funds.

The group that governs the Central Asian nation declared that they have nothing to do with the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001. It added that this US resolution constitutes a violation of the agreement reached with the Islamic Emirate.

According to the former United Nations special representative in Afghanistan, Thomas West, this is the wrong decision. However, he pointed out that Biden’s decision was misunderstood.

Experts agree that the lack of funds in the reserve will affect the sector of the Afghan economy.

Biden signed a decree to seize 7,000 million dollars from the Central Bank of Afghanistan deposited in US financial institutions and use them in humanitarian aid for the Afghan people and victims of the 9/11 attacks.

These Afghan funds reached the New York Federal Reserve Bank and other US financial institutions before the Taliban took Kabul and took control of the country, the US government explained. Biden requested half of that sum through this decree.

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