Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaki headed today, Sunday, to the Qatari capital, Doha, for political talks, while former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Union of Muslim Scholars condemned Washington's confiscation of $7 billion in Afghanistan's assets.

According to Afghan media, the Afghan delegation will meet with representatives from the Gulf countries and the European Union.

These meetings come after the Afghan government rejected Washington's decision to dispose of Afghanistan's $7 billion frozen funds in American banks.

The Afghan Central Bank issued a statement saying that the money deposited in US banks belongs to the Afghan people, not to governments, parties or groups.

US President Joe Biden signed a decree allocating half of the amount to humanitarian aid to the Afghan people, with the other half to be compensation for the families of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai considered Biden's decision unfair to the Afghan people (Anatolia)

Rethink

For his part, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai called - on Sunday - US President Joe Biden to reconsider his decision.

Karzai said - in a press conference held in Kabul - that the frozen funds should be used to ensure stability of the Afghan currency and the country's financial system.

He added that the Afghan people are the victims, especially those families who lost their loved ones, stressing that withholding or seizing funds is an unfair, unjust and brutal act against the Afghan people.

Karzai stated that the Afghan people are paying the price, although Osama bin Laden - who is credited with being the mastermind of the September 11 attacks - spent some time in Afghanistan, but later returned to Pakistan, where he was eventually killed.

"There were no Afghans among the terrorists who were involved in the attack on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001," he said.

The Union of Muslim Scholars called on Washington to release the frozen Afghan funds (communication sites)

condemnation of the decision

In turn, the International Union of Muslim Scholars denounced the US administration's decision to confiscate $7 billion from the assets of the Afghan Central Bank, calling for the release of the amount and its disbursement to Afghans "to alleviate their severe suffering."

The union considered - in a statement published on its official website - the US administration's decision "a departure from the values ​​of justice and mercy and reversed in terms of reality, because the one who has the right to demand compensation is the occupied Afghan people, not the one who destroyed and occupied the country."

In its statement, the Union called on free peoples, international organizations and human rights to prevent the implementation of this unjust decision.

He also urged the United Nations, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, humanitarian organizations, and people of good conscience to "stand against this unjust decision, and demand the release of all seized funds, their (Afghans) relief, and their material and moral support."

The International Union of Muslim Scholars pointed to its follow-up to the conditions of the Afghan people, from poverty, suffering and scarcity of financial resources that do not cover even part of their food, health and medical needs, as well as the salaries required for hundreds of thousands of employees and workers and the like.

The Union pointed out that at this "very difficult time" for the Afghan people, Washington could have arranged - in cooperation with the United Nations or friendly countries - to spend these billions on the Afghan people only, without the military authorities or the Taliban movement.

The United States froze billions of dollars in Afghan foreign assets, after the Taliban seized power in the country in mid-August.

Afghanistan has more than $9 billion in assets abroad, including just over $7 billion in the United States, with the rest in several countries.