Afghan protesters condemn US President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the US for families of America’s 9/11 victims
Afghan protesters condemned US President Joe Biden's decision to compensate September 11 victims from Afghan assets frozen in the US.
Protesters who gathered outside Kabul's grand Eid Gah mosque on Saturday asked America for financial compensation for the tens of thousands of Afghans killed during the last 20 years of war in Afghanistan. The country's economy is teetering on the brink of collapse after international money stopped coming into Afghanistan with the arrival in mid-August of the Taliban.Torek Farhadi, a financial adviser to Afghanistan's former US-backed government, questioned the UN managing Afghan Central Bank reserves.
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