The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that cash availability in Afghanistan remains one of the greatest concerns for all sectors and it is crucial that the international community finds solutions, even if temporary, to help the Afghan people.
"Cash shortages within the country concretely mean that health facilities may not be able to pay for fuel to run their generators, ambulances can't run, there isn't food for patients, and salaries have not been paid to health care workers for the past three months," said Khoder El Tari, deputy head of delegation of the ICRC.
Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said the biggest challenge facing Afghanistan was financial insecurity and the "roots of this concern lead back to the freezing of assets" of the people by the US government.
In October, Deputy US Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told a US Senate committee he saw no situation where the Taliban would be allowed to access the Afghan central bank reserves.
The US wants to use the frozen assets as bargaining chips in talks with the Afghan Taliban government, experts said, noting that while freezing the fortune of the Afghan people and seeing the people suffer from shortage of food and daily amenities, the US hypocritically said it cared about human rights situation in Afghanistan.
As winter approaches in Afghanistan, temperatures can drop to minus seven in certain areas and freezing temperatures can expose the population, especially children, to numerous health risks. Lack of cash and fuel shortage constitute huge challenges for many families in keeping themselves warm during the harsh winter conditions.
International organizations and scholars had warned against a shortage of food and basic items in Afghanistan.
China announced that it will provide 200 million yuan ($31.32 million) worth of emergency aid to Afghanistan, and the first batch of aid has already arrived in Kabul.
Meanwhile, a freight train loaded with more than 1,000 tons of humanitarian aid departed from Urumqi West Railway Station in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Saturday, and is set to arrive in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, in 12 days.
The goods on the train include naan and milk tea powder as well as such winter supplies as cotton-padded clothes, cotton shoes and blankets.
Anonymous
PS. The evil Americans only love the Muslims in Xinjiang and even lied that they were genocided. But they stole the billions from the Afghan Muslims and let them starved and suffered instead of offering them humanitarian aid. Redbean
The USA loves the Muslims like the Singapore Government loving it's citizens by keeping their money in CPF for them. LOL
ReplyDeleteAfghanistan is not the only country to have it's reserves frozen. I believe Venezuela had the same treatment. These are reserves that belongs to the Afghanistan Government and are needed to fund the rebuilding and support the livelihood of it's citizens.
Depriving such funds and expecting the Afghan Taliban Government to help it's own people now in need is in itself a blatant abuse of human rights. The USA keeps talking about upholding human rights, yet is the one that is abusing human rights all over the world.
And to add insult to injury, the USA and the West will be pounding on the fate of how the people in Afghanistan are suffering. Pure hypocrisy of the highest order from a vile, malicious and inhuman hypocrite.
The Covid19 virus is God's army. They were sent to destroy the evil men and women. All the evil countries are using world best 96% efficacy pseudo vaccines and now hit with the 4th and 5th waves with infection surging.
ReplyDeleteAfrica, with less than 10% of the population vaccinated with Chinese vaccines did not see any wild surge in infection, still lower than those evil countries hoarding and using pseudo mRNA vaccines.
The Covid19 virus is smarter than you think. God's creation to do the right thing. Killing the evil men and women without going to war.
The Present Pathetic Economic Situation In Afghanistan Has Exposed The Evilness Of The Evil US Empire
ReplyDeleteThe evilness of the evil US government and leaders know no bounds! To make the evils of 20-year long story short, for ease of understanding by the commoners, I have summerised it into six main points, thus:
1. Invaded Afghanistan and occupied it for 20 years, using a filmsy excuse of wanting to hunt down the 911 mastermind, who was actually hiding in Pakistan, thereby causing undue, unjustified and untold miseries and sufferings to its Muslim population without blinking an eyelid. Yet the International Court of Criminal Justice dared not even investigate it for war crimes against humanity but instead going after the defender of the very people whom the evil US military had killed, massacred and murdered.
2. In its 20 years of occupation of Afghanistan, the evil US forces had siphoned, stolen and robbed all the natural resources, especially opium, antiques, minerals and rare earths, of Afghanistan as much and as many as they could take away under the cover of deception, and cloaks and daggers operations by its equally, if not more evil, CIA organisations, agents and operatives.
3. By its military operations in Afghanistan over 20 long years, the evil US Empire has totally devastated and destroyed the country with airstrikes, missile strikes and dronestrikes and left the country in a devastated war-torn state without any border to help rebuild it.
4. Covertly and overtly, the evil US forces had Killed, massacred, miamed and murdered millions of the Afghanistan Muslims, three quarters of them are the innocent and defenceless children, women and aged.
5. The cunning, slimy, and scheming evil US political hacks have coerced and forced the Afghans, through its puppets in the US-installed Afghanistan government, to deposit Afghanistan's national trade surpluses and reserves in the US and now refused to return it, based on the inexcusable excuse of wanting to hold the billions of dollars as a bargaining chip with the Taliban Government. Wanting to use it to make the Taliban Government obey its orders and blackmailing demands.
6. Last but not least, The Evil US Empire has been talking about human rights and democracy but the evil US itself does not respect any human rights and has always been behaving and acting unilaterally like a worldwide dictator, always intimidating, coercing, blackmailing, threatening, sanctioning and invading smaller and weaker countries to subject their leaders to its unreasonable whims and fancies.
That sums up the gist of the evilness of the Evil US Empire that has led to the present pathetic economic situation in Afghanistan, as well as many other countries like North Korea, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Venezuela and others.
May the rest of the world wake up and seriously think about how evil the Evil US Empire is!
Queen of Hearts
How do big population countries like Indonesia and India, with low vaccination penetration rates still managed to have relatively low infections, while those Western countries with highly touted vaccination rates and the best vaccines money can buy are still struggling with high infection rates?
ReplyDeleteAn answer from the experts will be highly appreciated. I am talking about infection rates not death toll, which can be blamed on underlying medical conditions. And the explanation obviously cannot be on how high the vaccination rates are, which is causing the reverse effect.
Fall in COVID-19 testing worries Indian authorities
ReplyDeleteAn alarming fall in testing for COVID-19 threatens to undermine India's efforts to contain the pandemic, the federal health ministry said on Wednesday (Nov 24) in a letter to state governments, as worries grew over fresh waves of infection abroad.
India reported on Wednesday 9,283 new COVID-19 cases, a day after recording 7,579 infections - the lowest in 543 days. But testing has hovered around 1 million per day for the past few weeks, less than half the capacity.
"In the absence of sustained levels of sufficient testing, it is very difficult to determine the true level of infection spread in a geography," Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said in a letter sent to the northeastern state of Nagaland, which has reduced testing by more than a third in two months.
"With a majority of countries seeing multiple surges in COVID-19 cases in recent times and a few developed countries facing even fourth and fifth waves despite high levels of COVID-19 vaccination, there is a need for continued vigil given the unpredictable and contagious nature of the disease."
The ministry delivered the same warning to other states, though each letter contained observations specific to the various states' circumstances.
India has so far reported 34.5 million infections. The United States has the only higher total number of cases. Deaths in India rose by 437 on Wednesday to 466,584.
Health workers have started a door-to-door vaccination campaign in India as tens of millions of Indians have not taken their second dose by the due date.
India has so far administered 1.18 billion vaccine doses - at least one dose in 82 per cent of its 944 million adults and two in 44 per cent.
RB,
ReplyDeleteWhy is the above series of posts deposited here? The intention is obvious - to smear China.
This is not the appropriate place to talk about Covid-19 because there is already an article talking about Covid-19 and these should have been posted there instead.
Therefore, it seems that whenever there is an article talking about the evils of USA, this guy probably is the Australian CIA Spy Matilah, will cut and paste to post Anti-China articles.
It seems that Dead Man do tell tales. Oh, cut and paste tales from other people's websites.
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