“Deepening deprivation blights Afghan lives while politics obstruct the release of seized sovereign reserves”

The collective punishment of the Afghan people who had no say in arrangements that have pauperized them or the conditions that contributed to the death of many, poses moral as well as political questions that have largely gone unanswered. Following the Taliban takeover in Kabul in 2021, some US$9.5 billion of Afghanistan’s external reserves were… The post “Deepening deprivation blights Afghan…