Afghanistan: Taliban urges international communities to provide support, resume development aid
_Vinayak Barot
After taking the authority of Afghanistan forcefully into their hands – the Taliban now urged the international community to resume development aid and provide support. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has appealed to the international community to support Afghanistan by unfreezing nearly $10 billion assets of the Afghan people.
The way the Taliban acts in Afghanistan and especially in foreign diplomacy, the present government of Afghanistan knows nothing. The decisions and the visions without plans are directing the people of Afghanistan to poverty. Millions of people are at risk of starvation in Afghanistan and thousands of people are still want to shift to another country.
Permanent Representative-designate to United Nation, Mohammad Suhail Shaheen said that “Winter is around the corner, so the immediate need for the International Community to disburse on an 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 of Afghanistan”.
Shaheen assured that the IEA Government is ready to fully cooperate through the channeled agencies and other NGOs on the ground.
The situation in Afghanistan is totally changed after the Taliban took over the control of the country on August 15. Many countries have called back their ambassadors from Afghanistan and closed their embassies – with the exit of the US from Afghanistan. India evacuated its Afghanistan-based diplomats and shut down its embassy and other consulates before August 17.
According to the media reports, the minorities including women and children in Afghanistan are living under fear. “We are very worried about the status of women and children,” Henrietta Fore, executive director of UNICEF, told the media.
“The humanitarian assistance will not end our shared and mutual responsibility towards impending migration, famine, and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan,” said Shaheen.
