BEIJING (TSAT) - China on Friday criticized the United States for its decision to divide $7 billion frozen Afghan funds between Afghanistan and 9/11 victims families and called it injustice with Afghan people.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said that the US, a richest country in the world, blatantly plundering the wealth of poorest.

“The richest country in the world is blatantly plundering the wealth of the poorest! Whatever the pretext, the wealth of the #Afghan people should be owned and controlled by themselves, especially  at their hour of greatest need,” she tweeted. 

On Sunday, the former Afghan President Hamid Karzai also demanded the US President Joe Biden to reconsider its decision as that money which frozen by his government in August last year are belonging to Afghan people not to any government. 

“This money does not belong to any government. Much of this money was collected during my time in office. But that's not the money of my government, not the government that came after me of Dr Ashraf Ghani nor the government today,” Karzai told reporter during a press conference in Kabul.

“This money belongs to the to the people of Afghanistan. This is the property of the Afghan people and the Afghan people are the rightful owners of this property. I request President Joe Biden to reconsider his decision and to return the totality of Afghan assets reserves back to the people of Afghanistan,” Karzai added.

Earlier, the Afghan central bank, Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), also rejected the US President Joe Biden decision and said the frozen money are the property of Afghan people not of any government.

“DAB considers the latest decision of USA on blocking FX reserves and allocating them to irrelevant purposes, injustice to the people of Afghanistan and will never accept if the FX reserves of Afghanistan is paid under the name of compensation or humanitarian assistance to others and wants the reversal of the decision and release of all FX reserves of Afghanistan.”

On Friday,  the US President Joe Biden has announced to unfreeze Afghan government assets and only half amount will send to Afghanistan.

The decision has called an “strange and unique” in the US history as the President used its power and would be held $3.5 billion in the US which is belongs to the Afghan people. 

“As part of our ongoing work to address the humanitarian and economic crisis in Afghanistan, President Biden signed an Executive Order (E.O.) to help enable certain U.S.-based assets belonging to Afghanistan’s central bank, Da Afghanistan Bank (“DAB”), to be used to benefit the Afghan people,” said in a statement issued from the White House.

However, the White House said that $3.5 billion out of the total $7 billion Afghan government assets will use for humanitarian assistance of Afghan people while the remaining $3.5 billion will hold in the US until the court case that filed the 9/11 attacks victims families against Afghan Taliban.

“Reserve of Da Afghanistan Bank does not belong to governments or factions but it is property of the people of Afghanistan. It is only used for implementation of monetary policy, facilitation of trade and boosting of financial system of the country. It is never intended to be used for any other purpose rather than that,” said Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban government nominees for the United Nations.

 “It’s freezing or disbursement unilaterally for any other purpose is injustice and not acceptable to the people of Afghanistan,” he added.