Hundreds of Kabul residents protested in response to an executive order issued by US President Joe Biden on Tuesday.
The protesters chanted “Joe Biden has stopped his enmity with the Afghan nation” and “9/11 has nothing to do with the Afghan nation”.
Under President Joe Biden’s decree, 3.5 billion of Afghanistan’s frozen funds will be earmarked for the victims of 9/11.
They said the United States and its allies must pay the price for the war that has killed “thousands of Afghans and destroyed Afghanistan” over the past 20 years.
The protesters also said that the frozen money belonged to the Afghan people and that Biden should rescind his decree.
Meanwhile, a large number of people in Nangarhar province on Saturday protested against a decree issued by US President Joe Biden regarding Afghan mony.
According to BNA, investors, money changers and traders participated in the protest.
Biden’s decision has provoked widespread reactions in Afghanistan and abroad since last Friday, and is the second such protest in Kabul.
Meanwhile, the Taliban government in its response to Biden’s decision last night, four days after the executive order of the United States on Biden’s frozen assets in Afghanistan, condemned Biden’s decision and called it against the Doha agreement.
This week, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai also said that the money should not be returned to the victims of 9/11. He stressed that the President of the United States should reconsider his decision and return all frozen money to the people of Afghanistan.
