Taliban urges world to disburse announced aid

KABUL (Pajhwok): Senior Taliban Leader Suhail Shaheen has urged the international community to disburse announced aid of $1.2 billion as the winter is around the corner.

Taking to his twitter handler Shaheen said: “The winter is around the corner, so immediate need for the International Community to disburse on urgent basis the recently announced nearly one-billion-euro (some $1.2-billion) aid package pledged at a virtual G20 summit for Afghanistan , to all poor, vulnerable and displaced people.”

He said: “The IEA Government is ready to fully cooperate through the channelled agencies and other NGOs on the ground. The humanitarian assistance will not end our shared and mutual responsibility towards impending migration, famine and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

“We call on the International Community to support Afghanistan with unfreezing nearly $10 billion assets of the Afghan people and resuming the development aid and projects pledged to Afghanistan by the International Community at the Geneva Conference 2020.”

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