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The UN envoy for Afghanistan says the country is “ on the point of a philanthropic catastrophe”, prompting the transnational community to find ways to give fiscal support to the Afghan people, who “ feel abandoned”.
Deborah Lyons said an estimated 60 percent of Afghanistan’s 38 million people are facing extremity situations of hunger in a food exigency that will probably worsen over the downtime.
Now isn’t the time to turn down from the Afghan people,” Lyons said at a press conference on Wednesday at the UN.
“ To abandon the Afghan people now would be a major mistake – a mistake that has been made before with woeful consequences,” she had told the UN Security Council before in the day.
Lyons added that the philanthropic catastrophe “ is preventable” as its main cause is fiscal warrants on the Taliban, who took over the country in August, and she assured the transnational community the UN would make every trouble to avoid the diversion of finances to the Taliban.
Warrants “ have paralysed the banking system, affecting every aspect of the frugality”, according to the UN envoy. The country’s GDP is estimated to have contracted by 40 percent since the Taliban preemption.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) blocked the release of about$ 450m to Afghanistan more than a week after the West- backed government collapsed and the Taliban took over. The Afghan central bank’s$ 9bn in reserves, utmost of which are held in the US, were also firmed.
Asked by Al Jazeera’s James Bays if releasing the frozen finances would palliate the current philanthropic extremity, Lyons said “ We ’re looking at the plutocrat that has formerly been committed by the benefactors for the philanthropic work and making sure we’ve mechanisms in place to have that flowing.”
Lyons said a new medium to pay health workers’ hires has been set up. The Taliban has plodded to pay workers in crucial sectors similar as health and education.
The “ palsy of the banking sector will push further of the fiscal system into inexplainable and limited informal plutocrat exchanges,” the envoy said, which “ can only help grease terrorism, trafficking and farther medicine smuggling” that will first affect Afghanistan and also “ infect the region.”
Against that tenuous background, Lyons advised that the Taliban has been unfit to stem the expansion of ISIL (ISIS), which now seems to be present in nearly all businesses and is decreasingly active. The UN estimates the number of attacks attributed to ISIL has increased significantly, from 60 last time to 334 this time.
