Two years later he was forced to watch in horror as the militants re-gained control of his homeland, and now he is ‘living a life no human deserves’.: ‘The banks are not giving people their money, the Taliban don’t have enough money to give wages to their people.
The country was plunged into economic meltdown virtually overnight when the Taliban took over in August, as billions of dollars in foreign aid that propped up the previous Western-backed government vanished. ‘I don’t know how many people have died in this cold weather, these are the things that are happening.’
Power outages are also common and on Tuesday it was dark ‘from morning until night’ because there was no electricity, Ali said.‘If the international community doesn’t help, the situation will get worse. The country will collapse, people will kill each other. That’s the reality,’ said Ali.supports HTML5 video
He said: ‘The Taliban don’t have the potential to run a government. They have come down from the mountains, they are illiterate, they know nothing about anything. ‘In the worst case scenario, people will rob for the sake of their families, they will kill for the sake of their kids.’ UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that without a more concerted effort from the international community, ‘virtually every man, woman and child in Afghanistan could face acute poverty’.
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