KABUL (Pajhwok): The US has frozen nearly $9.5 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank and stopped shipments of cash to the nation.
The action was aimed to keep a Taliban-led government from accessing the money, a US administration official confirmed on Tuesday.
Al-Jazeera quoted the official as saying that any central bank assets that the Afghan government had in the US would not be available to the Taliban, which remained on the Treasury Department’s sanctions designation list.
Ajmal Ahmady, acting head of Da Afghan Bank, tweeted on Monday that he learnt on Friday . . .
