The Purple Saturdays Movement, in welcoming the recent remarks of the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Congress, has once again emphasized that the Taliban, through the use of the US’s weekly humanitarian aid of $40 million, have suppressed the people of Afghanistan, especially women, and strengthened terrorism and terrorist ideologies, establishing hundreds of jihadist schools to enhance suicide units and expand their cross-border operations.
The Purple Saturdays Movement had previously, in a declaration on the 8th of March of the current year, expressed concern about the Taliban’s access to and misuse of the US’s weekly $40 million aid to Afghanistan under Taliban rule, demanding transparency and reporting on the details of this aid.
The movement states: “We believe that one of the remaining reasons for the Taliban’s enduring power in the past nearly three years has been the indirect support of the United States government for this group, through the sending of $40 million in weekly aid without accountability to that country.”
The statement stresses: “We consider the support and maintenance of the Taliban in power under the guise of engagement and sending humanitarian aid as extortion to this group and a great injustice to the people of Afghanistan, and we urge the United States Congress and the people of that country to ask their government why and how their humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan is being misused by the Taliban.”
Members of the Purple Saturdays Movement have called on the people and the Congress of the United States to support the people of Afghanistan and prevent the Taliban from accessing their humanitarian aid.
- نویسنده : Afghanistan Women News Agency
- منبع خبر : Afghanistan Women News Agency
