INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Da Afghanistan Bank on Wednesday welcomed the decision of a US District Court decision not to use $3.5 billion of Afghanistan&s frozen
assets to pay compensation to the victims of 9/11. &Afghanistan&s foreign exchange reserves are assets of Afghans, which are used according
to the law for the purpose of monetary stability, strengthening the financial system - facilitating trade with the world,& DAB said in a
statement Wednesday. &The people of Afghanistan want the restrictions imposed on the country&s foreign exchange reserves to be completely
removed so that the suffering people can be freed from psycho-economic problems,& DAB said. &Da Afghanistan Bank & is ready to cooperate
comprehensively with the countries of the world - related organizations to resolve international concerns,& read the statement. This
comes after a US judge decided on Tuesday that victims of the Sept
11, 2001, attacks are not entitled to seize $3.5 billion of assets belonging to Afghanistan&s central bank to satisfy court judgments they
obtained against the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), Reuters reported. US District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan said he was
&constitutionally restrained& from finding that the IEA was Afghanistan&s legitimate government, a precursor for attaching assets belonging
to Da Afghanistan Bank, or DAB. Daniels said letting victims seize those assets would amount to a ruling that the IEA are Afghanistan&s
legitimate government. He said US courts lack power to reach that conclusion, noting that the Biden administration does not recognize the
IEA as Afghanistan&s government, read the report. &The judgment creditors are entitled to collect on their default judgments and be made
whole for the worst terrorist attack in our nation&s history, but they cannot do so with the funds of the central bank of Afghanistan,&
Daniels wrote. &The Taliban [Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan] & not the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan or the Afghan people & must
pay for the IEA&s liability in the 9/11 attacks,& he added. Nearly 3,000 people died on Sept
11, 2001, when planes were flown into New York&s World Trade Center, the Pentagon in northern Virginia, and a Pennsylvania field.The post
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