1,000 families receive relief aid in N. Afghanistan

KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN: APRIL. 14 – About 1,000 destitute and drought-affected families received relief assistance in Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz on Thursday, a provincial official said.

“The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) distributed 50 kg of flour, 10 liters of cooking oil, and 25 kg of rice together with packages of tea, sugar, salt and biscuits to each of the 1,000 surveyed families in Qala-i-Zal district on Thursday,” Mohammad Riza Nasiri, head of province’s ARCS department, told Xinhua.

More relief assistance would be provided to needy families in Kunduz, 250 km north of Afghanistan’s Kabul, in the coming days and weeks, according to the official.

Following the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan last August, Washington has imposed sanctions on the Taliban-run administration and frozen more than 9 billion U.S. dollars of assets of Afghanistan’s central bank, which battered the economy in the war-torn country.

-Xinhua