WASHINGTON, 09 December 2021, (TON): According to a report issued “a US-based think tank has called on the international community to ease restrictions on Afghanistan to avoid "state failure and mass starvation.”

The report issued by Washington-based transnational think tank, International Crisis Group (ICG) said “International actors must ease restrictions to avoid state failure and mass starvation in Afghanistan.”

It warned that hunger and destitution in the wake of the Taliban's takeover could "kill more people than all the bombs and bullets of the past two decades.”

ICG projected that up to one million Afghan children could die of starvation this winter if not helped, urging the US, Europe, and other donor nations to find ways to keep Afghanistan from imploding without endorsing the Taliban regime.

Other relief agencies have also warned that providing only humanitarian aid to Afghanistan was like a band-aid at best and that economic engagement with Afghanistan was necessary to prevent a collapse of the Afghan state.

ICG, other think tanks and relief agencies have asked for a “humanitarian-plus” approach to prevent the collapse of the Afghan state. The suggested “humanitarian-plus” initiative includes providing salaries for doctors and teachers, sending hospital supplies and restoring electricity.