After the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021 the Taliban seized control of the country. In response the International Monetary Fund and major international donors to the country blocked the Taliban’s access to billions of dollars in charitable bank accounts. More than half of Afghanistan’s annual $5 billion budget is from foreign aid. Despite its puritanical brand of Islam, the Taliban controls the world’s largest opium operation, earning about $460 million a year from taxes on the sale of heroin moving through their territories alone, the U.N. says.…
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Although it is difficult, aid can be directed as far as possible to non-governmental development and rights organisations. It will be impossible to bypass the Afghan government completely but it is better to provide aid that can reach the most vulnerable even with the knowledge that some of it is likely to be misappropriated.
Only aid in the form of food
@96NG2NW2yrs2Y
no, but aid should be provided to families and children in afghanistan where possible
Yes, for the means of providing a living standard to Afghan citizens.
No, the IMF and World Bank are financial terrorist organisations that would destabilise Afghanistan further
Yes, But only if they adhere to strict human rights standards.
@95Q6RL23yrs3Y
Yes but send it in explicitly humanitarian aid such as food and medical supplies
As long as it is to improve the lives of the people there
No, send in their own team of aid workers
Yes, but only to citizen services, not military.
@938XSSS3yrs3Y
No, but try and help those in danger in Afghanistan but do NOT support the Taliban
@92HC6RB3yrs3Y
Yes, provided that none of the aid is not used for military purposes, and 100% goes to Afghan people who are struggling
Only on the condition that the Taliban work for the benefit of all their citizens in Afghanistan
@cormallenLabour3yrs3Y
Only with tight controls on what it is spent and as leverage to restrain their Islamo-fascist tendencies
@8Z3DFDX3yrs3Y
Yes, but only if they cooperate to improve equal human rights
No but help the civilians struggling in Afghanistan
They should donate to charities which would ensure the money directly goes to people
@96RF3QGLiberal Democrat2yrs2Y
Yes, but linked to specific change
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