{"id":1251818,"date":"2022-01-28T17:52:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T22:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1251818"},"modified":"2022-01-28T17:52:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T22:52:40","slug":"taliban-uses-foreign-aid-intended-for-starving-afghans-to-enslave-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-uses-foreign-aid-intended-for-starving-afghans-to-enslave-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Uses Foreign Aid Intended for Starving Afghans to Enslave Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaliban-uses-foreign-aid-intended-for-starving-afghans-to-enslave-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1251818&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Humanitarian activists and U.N. officials are calling for sanctions against the Taliban to be eased so aid can be rendered to the sick, starving, and soon-to-be freezing Afghan people \u2013 but <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/gandhara.rferl.org\/a\/taliban-foreign-aid-starving-afghans\/31670691.html\"><span>Radio Free Europe<\/span><\/a><span> (RFE) on Tuesday documented how the Taliban is looting aid programs to pay its officials, and even withholding food to force Afghan civilians into slavery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>RFE interviewed a Kabul day laborer named Omaruddin who explained the Taliban set up a \u201cfood-for-work\u201d program in October that \u201crequires recipients to do manual labor on public-works projects to receive humanitarian aid.\u201d Even <\/span><span>that<\/span><span> atrocious bargain is only available to people who have good connections to the Taliban.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cNobody hires us. The Taliban only take people that they know. You cannot find a job unless you know someone. They will not give you anything even if you work hard. There is no way that they are going to give out something for free,\u201d said Omaruddin, who lacks such connections himself, so his twenty appeals to enter the \u201cfood-for-work\u201d program have been ignored.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Several other laborers told similar stories of being denied humanitarian aid by the Taliban, even when they offered to work for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere is no business at all. The aid is only given to those who have links or relationships with the Taliban. It does not go to the poor,\u201d agreed another day laborer named Ghazni Gul.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19616330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/wi\/ap\/25\/norway-afghanistan-taliban-afghan-foreign-minister-amir-khan-muttaqi-meets-media-soria-moria-hotel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19616330 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/norway-afghanistan-taliban-afghan-foreign-minister-amir-khan-muttaqi-meets-media-soria-moria-hotel-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi meets the media outside the Soria Moria hotel in Oslo, Norway, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. (Terje Pedersen\/NTB scanpix via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cNow, in what the Taliban claims is an expansion of its \u2018food for work\u2019 program, the cash-strapped regime has begun to use foreign wheat aid to pay the salaries of public sector workers,\u201d RFE added, explaining how the Taliban has weaponized shipments of grain donated by first India, and then Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19670314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/AP22013493339885.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19670314 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP22013493339885-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE - A man distributes bread to Burka-wearing Afghan women outside a bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec, 2, 2021. UN World Food Program top official Mary-Ellen McGroarty says Afghanistan is facing a &quot;tsunami of hunger,&quot; with the country on the verge of economic collapse and more than half of the population struggling to eat this winter. In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022 the WFP leader in Afghanistan urged the international community to separate political discussions from the humanitarian imperative by making sure the billions in aid that are required to avoid a disaster keep reaching the country, which is being run by the Taliban. (AP Photo\/Petros Giannakouris, File)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A man distributes bread to Burka-wearing Afghan women outside a bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec, 2, 2021. (AP Photo\/Petros Giannakouris)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>These arrangements are unsurprisingly harsh on Afghan women, especially widows lacking a man to provide for them, since the Taliban does not even allow women to work as indentured servants in its foreign-aid-fueled slavery program.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19543698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/afghanistan-is-grip-of-an-economic-crisis-taliban-desperate-international-recognition-afp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19543698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/afghanistan-is-grip-of-an-economic-crisis-taliban-desperate-international-recognition-afp.jpg\" alt=\"AFP\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Afghanistan is in the grip of a humanitarian disaster, worsened by the Taliban takeover of the country. (Wakil KOHSAR\/AFP)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The Taliban issued a perfunctory denial that it onl<\/span><span>y allows its supporters to collect humanitarian aid, but the food-for-work programs are no secret, and the \u201cIslamic Emirate of Afghanistan\u201d apparently sees no need to conceal its looting of humanitarian programs to pay government employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19657450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237992684.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19657450 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237992684-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - A Taliban fighter stands guard before to start a women protest in support of the Taliban regime at the Ahmad Shah Massoud square in front of the US embassy in Kabul on January 26, 2022. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR \/ AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A Taliban fighter stands guard before to start a women protest in support of the Taliban regime at the Ahmad Shah Massoud square in front of the U.S. embassy in Kabul on January 26, 2022. (WAKIL KOHSAR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The terrible conundrum facing humanitarian agencies is that Afghanistan is clearly in bad shape after the brutal Taliban takeover, and the encroaching winter is likely to make widespread sickness, poverty, and hunger even worse \u2013 but most of these agencies <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/23\/change-to-aid-rules-needed-to-prevent-famine-in-afghanistan-say-uk-experts\"><span>agree<\/span><\/a><span> that rendering effective aid to the Afghan people will require lifting some sanctions on the Taliban, as well as pumping in more cash that can be misappropriated by the extremists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Even before Taliban graft and mismanagement is factored in, Afghanistan\u2019s economy under the U.S. occupation had become highly dependent on foreign support, so 80 percent of its government budget vanished after the Taliban took over, eliminating funding for hospitals, schools, and industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in early January <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-coronavirus-pandemic-health-taliban-humanitarian-assistance-94bf09d3abc050292a930ca826e53cc2\"><span>blamed<\/span><\/a><span> the \u201ceconomic tourniquet applied to Afghanistan\u201d for skyrocketing food prices and growing malnutrition among Afghan children. The United Nations wants another $4.4 billion in funding for Afghan aid, the largest humanitarian appeal it has ever made. The U.S. made another $780 million in aid commitments <\/span><span>after<\/span><span> President Joe Biden\u2019s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is among the officials who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/27\/u-n-chief-wants-taliban-sanctions-lifted-facilitate-humanitarian-aid\/\"><span>argue<\/span><\/a><span> increased aid funding will not do enough to help unless financial sanctions on Afghanistan are lifted so its banking system can be restarted, making it possible to buy supplies locally and pay aid staffers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Many of these international officials <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/01\/28\/afghanistan-humanitarian-aid-taliban-women\/\"><span>argue<\/span><\/a><span> the United States must lead the way on lifting sanctions, because other aid donors are reluctant to make major commitments while American sanctions remain. RFE\u2019s story calls into question the assurances given by these officials that humanitarian money and supplies can be kept out of extremist hands.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanitarian activists and U.N. officials are calling for sanctions against the Taliban to be eased so aid can be rendered to the sick, starving, and soon-to-be freezing Afghan people \u2013 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}