In an open letter to U.S. President Joe Biden that circulated on social media, a number of Afghan women called the U.S. move to secure half of Afghanistan’s 7 billion funds for 9/11 victims “extremely unfair,” saying it will further deteriorate the economic situation.
“While we share the sorrow of 9/11 and the lives lost as a result, both in the U.S. and Afghanistan, this decision by the world’s most powerful country over the resources of the world’s poorest country is extremely unfair.”
Those who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks were not Afghans, but it was Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who were killed in Pakistan, the letter read.
“Taking funds from the Afghan people is the unkindest and most inappropriate response for a country that is going through the worst humanitarian crisis in its history,” the letter read.
The money of Afghanistan belongs to the people of the country, it said.
The Afghan people are at the darkest days of the history and have long been victims of “short-sighted policies” of big nations and the corrupt leaders.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order, splitting Afghanistan’s funds between humanitarian aid and victims of September 11 attacks in United States.
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