The report also said that all transactions involving Taliban-owned property would be blocked and outlawed…reports Asian Lite News
Several Republican Senators in the US have proposed a bill that would subject the Taliban to severe new sanctions in response to its human rights violations in Afghanistan, TOLO News reported.
TOLO News is an Afghan news channel. This comes nearly two years after the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
As per the bill, President Joe Biden must impose sanctions on the Taliban for their involvement in terrorism, drug trafficking, and violations of women’s rights, Fox News reported.
The report also said that all transactions involving Taliban-owned property would be blocked and outlawed, and any visas or other entry-permitting documents would be rendered invalid.
Senator Jim Risch told Fox News: “Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban has repressed Afghanistan’s women, minorities, and youth, diverted aid from Afghans in desperate need, taken hostages to achieve political gain, and allowed Afghanistan to become a safe haven for terrorists again. Unfortunately, the Biden Administration’s response has failed to curtail Taliban abuses.”
The bill outlines several requirements the Taliban authorities must satisfy to avert more sanctions.
According to Khaama Press, this entails cutting links with all terrorist outlets, allowing humanitarian organizations full access to their territory to care for its most vulnerable residents, enabling residents to leave their territory, and recognizing human rights, women’s rights, and press freedom.
The Taliban has since taking control of Afghanistan in August 2021, restricted women’s rights, including education and employment.
Meanwhile, the Taliban authorities reiterated that their government had completed the conditions for recognition.
Taliban: Sanctions are ‘cruel’
Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, during a meeting with family members of the 18 Afghan migrants who died while being smuggled into Bulgaria, called the sanctions imposed by foreign countries cruel, reported TOLO News.
Muttaqi said, “The world countries should listen, they should not pursue their cases under the pretext that these people are being harmed here. They should not damage the Afghan academic figures. They should not evacuate them from Afghanistan.” A family of a victim who was seeking to enter Bulgaria illegally was interviewed by TOLO News, an Afghanistan-based news network.
28-year-old Nai, was among the 18 Afghan refugees who succumbed in a container while in Bulgaria. Naim was a farmer and only had basic education.
Naim’s father said, “He said ‘prepare yourself.’ I asked him ‘what for?’ He told me ‘our brother has been martyred but we did not tell you.”
Naim’s brother said, “The reason was that he was unemployed and there was no work in Afghanistan. All the people are forced to leave, and they leave the country due to this.”
According to relatives of Naim, he left the country due to severe economic conditions and unemployment.
“He called me one day and said that I made by decision and I am going to Turkey and France. Bring me USD 200. I told him, one my sons is in France, I will tell him…..This was his last word, I did not give him money,” said a relative of Naim, reported TOLO News.
Meanwhile, the acting foreign minister said that Afghanistan is a home for all Afghans, adding that “if someone likes the government or not, he/she has the right to live in this country — invest in business and live a dignified life.”
The bodies of these 18 Afghan refugees were returned to Afghanistan on Tuesday, TOLO News reported. (ANI)