Taliban accuse US of ‘usurping’ Afghanistan’s frozen assets

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KABUL, Sept 16 — Taliban authorities accused the United States yesterday of having usurped Afghan assets, after Washington revealed plans to set up an external fund to manage US$3.5 billion (RM15 billion) of its seized national reserves.When the Taliban stormed back to power in August last year, the US froze US$7 billion in central bank assets, exacerbating a poverty crisis caused by the collapse of the old regime and suspension of foreign aid.Earlier this year US President Joe Biden revealed a plan to split the cash, with half for aid to Afghanistan and half going to victims of the 9/11 terror attacks that prompted the US-led invasion.Since then, Kabul’s new leaders have been courting Washington to unlock the aid cash as Afghanistan has been lashed by a winter food crisis, economic free-fall and devastating earthquake.But yesterday, the US said the US$3.5 billion would be sto…