ISLAMABAD, Feb 17 (NNN-XINHUA) – Biden administration’s decision to compensate the victims of 9/11 terrorist attacks with Afghanistan’s assets, is “quite cruel” and “without any international justification,” said Pakistani economist, Syed Javed Hassan, in a recent interview with Xinhua.
Following the pullout of its troops from Afghanistan in Aug, 2021, the United States has frozen nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars’ worth of assets of Afghanistan’s central bank, which worsened the economic crisis and poverty in the war-torn Asian country.
In a decree issued last Friday, U.S. President, Joe Biden, reportedly ordered the allocation of 3.5 billion dollars from the assets, as damage to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and diverted 3.5 billion more dollars to the Afghans, as humanitarian aid, without the consent of the Taliban-run administration.– NNN-XINHUA
