“No funds can be transferred until the courts make a ruling,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Tuesday when she was asked about Afghanistan’s frozen funds that half of it will go to 9/11 victims.
U.S. President Joe Biden signed “the executive order in an effort to try to provide some of this funding to the Afghan people,” she said.
U.S. President Joe Biden on last Friday signed an executive order, securing Afghanistan’s financial reserves for humanitarian aid and victims of 9/11 attacks in the United States.
The decision drew anger from Afghans who branded it as “theft” and “moral decay.”
Some $7 billion in assets of the central bank were frozen in U.S. banks after Islamic Emirate returned to power.
Some families of victims of the 9/11 attacks sued to get damages from these funds.
Afghans say they have got nothing to do with those attacks on U.S.
The new rulers have warned they would reconsider its policy toward the United States if Biden did not reverse his “unjustified” decision.
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