RASC: The Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has announced that the Taliban has intervened 494 times in the work of international aid organizations in Afghanistan from November 2022 to February 2023.
On Thursday, June 29, SIGAR said in a tweet that there were 153 incidents of Taliban intervention in the same period of 2021.
According to the Office of the Special Inspector General of the United States for the Reconstruction of Afghanistan, the United Nations last year registered 84 bureaucratic cases related to the Taliban group’s pressure on aid organizations to sign the memorandum.
SIGAR added that the Taliban group is trying to obtain information about the plan of international institutions by creating these obstacles.
In addition, in 2022, the United Nations recorded 30 cases of attacks on health workers and 362 cases of violence and threats against humanitarian workers, assets and facilities.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA) reported in January of this year that it has temporarily suspended 272 programs due to the intervention of the Taliban group in providing aid.
In addition to banning women from working in international organizations by the Taliban group, this group lastly ordered international organizations to stop their assistance in the education sector in the month of June.
The Taliban group has not reacted to this report so far.
Previously, some citizens of the country criticized the intervention of the Taliban group in the process of distributing humanitarian aid and said that most of the aid is deposited into the pockets of the fighters of this group.
