The executive board of the World Bank on Tuesday approved a plan to use more than $1 billion from a frozen Afghanistan trust fund to fund urgently needed education, agriculture, health and family programs, a source familiar with the decision said. The move, which will bypass sanctioned Taliban authorities by disbursing the money through U.N. agencies, will provide a major
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The militant group will use “every diplomatic approach” to push President Joe Biden to reverse his decision and release the Afghan funds, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed said in a phone interview Tuesday.
On February 11th, the New York Times bannered "Spurning Demand by the Taliban, Biden Moves to Split $7 Billion in Frozen Afghan Funds," and reported that “President Biden will start to clear a legal path for certain relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to pursue $3.5 billion from assets that Afghanistan’s central