Kabul, June 24 -- The Afghan Taliban government's acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has called on the United States to immediately release the country's foreign reserves, calling the freezing of its assets by the US illegal, reports Tolo News.
Muttaqi stressed that the US decision has severely disrupted the natural course of Afghanistan's economic development, impacting its already debilitated treasury.
Muttaqi also urged the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to help Afghanistan battle its socio-economic challenges, and fulfil their humanitarian and religious duties by using all their resources to lift the US sanctions.
In his statement, Muttaqi said: "After two decades of war in Afghanistan, the US has frozen the n...