KABUL – Inamullah Samangani, the Taliban government's Deputy Spokesperson, slammed Washington's "unfair" plan to compensate 9/11 terrorist attack victims with Afghanistan's assets on Sunday.

"US President Joe Biden's latest decision on the handling of Afghanistan's foreign exchange reserve is a quick, unjust retaliation that displays the US extreme degraded morality," Samangani added.

Following the withdrawal of US soldiers from Afghanistan in August 2021, the US froze over USD 10 billion worth of assets held by Afghanistan's central bank, exacerbating the country's economic turmoil and suffering.

Without the Taliban-run administration's agreement, Biden reportedly directed the allocation of 3.5 billion dollars from assets as damage to victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and transferred another 3.5 billion dollars to the Afghans as humanitarian help in a decree published on Friday.

"After suffering a military setback, the Americans are now branding their moral failure by making such an unjust decision. Because Afghan assets are Afghan assets, the Americans cannot pay reparations or provide humanitarian aid to Afghans "Samangani remarked.

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