KABUL, 13 February 2022, (TON): Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital condemned US President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the US for families of America’s 9/11 victims saying the money belongs to Afghans.

Protesters who gathered outside Kabul’s grand Eid Gah mosque asked America for financial compensation for the tens of thousands of Afghans killed during the last 20 years of war in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s central bank, known as Da Afghanistan Bank or DAB, also opposed the move, calling it "an injustice to the people of Afghanistan" and demanding that the decision be withdrawn.

It said in a press release "DAB considers the latest decision of [the] USA on blocking foreign exchange reserves and allocating them to irrelevant purposes [an] injustice to the people of Afghanistan and will never accept if the FX reserves of Afghanistan are paid in the name of compensation or humanitarian assistance to others, and wants the reversal of the decision and release of all FX reserves of Afghanistan.”

The bank said the "real owners" of the said assets were the people of Afghanistan.

It added "these reserves were not and [are] not the property of governments, parties and groups and never used as per their demand and decisions.”