Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has called upon the international community to support Afghans at a critical juncture through different steps, including unfreezing their assets, Geo Tv reported.<\/p>\n
“In my opinion, unfreezing the frozen assets of Afghanistan for (the) Afghans may serve as a major step for confidence-building that could also incentivise positive behaviour,” he said yesterday while interacting with the UN’s press representatives in New York.<\/p>\n
“On one hand, you’re raising fresh funds to avert a crisis and on the other hand money that is theirs \u2013 (which) belongs to them \u2013 they cannot use.<\/p>\n
“I think freezing the assets is not helping the situation. I would strongly urge the powers that be that they should revisit that policy and think of an unfreeze,” he added.<\/p>\n
The US froze US$9.5 billion in Afghan central bank assets and international lenders have stayed clear of Afghanistan, wary of providing money that could be used by the Taliban.<\/p>\n
“Afghans have faced war in the last four decades so the international community should not leave Afghans alone now.<\/p>\n
“A peaceful Afghanistan will benefit the whole region. Pakistan wants peace and stability in Afghanistan because if the Afghanistan situation deteriorates, Pakistan will be (the) most affected,” the Foreign Minister said.<\/p>\n
Qureshi said Pakistan has been hosting more than three million Afghan refugees for the last four decades with limited resources and without financial support from the international community.<\/p>\n
Pakistan’s economy can no longer bear the burden of refugees, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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