There’s a legitimate question to be asked as to how a country’s sovereign wealth can be used to satisfy the debt of an entity that is not recognized as the sovereign government.
John Sifton, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch
President Joe Biden has signed an unethical, immoral, illogical, and unlawful executive order of diverting 7 billion USD frozen Afghan Central bank assets (3.5 billion USD each for copping humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan and 3.5 billion USD for terrorism-related Lawsuits of the relatives of those who had died in 9/11 hijacking episode against the Taliban.)
This killing of justice is being seen again human rights and international norms as a matter of fact that this decision has no sound legal and moral reasoning. Observers have been opining that if the US has not recognized the Taliban then on what ground the money is being used (as a collective punishment) which belongs to the people of Afghanistan? This regrettable decision will set a problematic precedent by diverting a state’s sovereign asset and utilizing it for US citizens.
At a juncture when a country that has been in serious economic meltdown, where poverty, inflation, unemployment, malnutrition, starvation, food insecurity, and pathetic health indicators have brought the people at the verge of huge humanitarian catastrophe____ the decision does not make any rational, just, or decent sense and proves that imperialists have been against the poor nations.
This US aggression would lead the Afghan people against the hatred for the US. This fallacious move would undoubtedly have far-reaching consequences for America’s counterterrorism exertions throughout the world in the future and will further dent their stance on combating terrorism. The piteous reticent of the so-called human rights defenders, the United Nations Organization, the West, and the Muslim ummah is more commendable.
Technically, these assets belong to Afghanistan and not to the Taliban rulers. How can Washington testify imposing shared punishment on the people of Afghanistan penalizing the Taliban? If the Taliban were the culprit then why did the US sign a peace deal and handed over the country to the Taliban on a platter? Astonishingly, these assets have been preserved in the US for a long, why did the US not take any such decision before the Taliban come into power? It raises legal questions as well. Ironically, none of the 19 hijackers who were involved in the brutal terrorist attacks was Afghan. In total 19 out of them, 15 were Saudi nationals. How much did the US confiscate from Saudi accounts? While, technically, the case was sued in a US court, the question is at what ground in the presence of internal law the decision of US court is binding and lawful?
At the same time, a question arises at what capacity the US has the right to use the 3.5 billion USD as humanitarian aid in Afghanistan, and by whom it will be utilized? What will be the criteria for utilizing it?
Crimes against humanity refer to particular crimes that are committed in the factors of wide-ranging attacks by targeting civilians, regardless of their nationality. Should it not be seen as a crime against humanity (It will not) as the country is already on the brink of genocide due to starvation and hunger__ where the UNO has feared that that 97 percent of Afghans could be the victims of Poverty by 2022.
The Afghans are paying the price for the sins which they have not committed. In the war of others, they have been facing catastrophes for a long. More regrettable is the stubbornness and short-sightedness of the Afghan leaders who have failed to distinguish between good and bad, friend and foe. Their mutual enmity and bloodthirst of each other will lead them to nowhere. Will sanity prevail ever?
- Two Khans: The Epitope of Pashtun Unity - 13/05/2023
- Imran Khan’s Immature Tirade - 14/03/2022
- The PECA Ordinance - 25/02/2022
