Washington cuts US$1 billion aid to Afghanistan
Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani receiving US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the presidential palace in Kabul yesterday. – EPA pic, March 24, 2020.
SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo said yesterday the United States was cutting US$1 billion in aid to Afghanistan, voicing disappointment that rival leaders pressed by him on a visit failed to form an inclusive government. “The United States is disappointed in them and what their conduct means for Afghanistan and our shared interests,” Pompeo said in a statement after his talks in Kabul with President Ashraf Ghani and Ghani’s rival Abdullah Abdullah.
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