Pak Sahafat – Fox News reported that 19 Republican senators are looking for new sanctions on the Taliban for violating human rights almost two years after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency from Fox News, Nineteen Republican senators are preparing to introduce a bill to impose tough new sanctions on the Taliban for human rights abuses in Afghanistan, nearly two years after the United States withdrew from the country.
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According to this report, this bill requires US President Joe Biden to sanction the Taliban for terrorist activities, drug trafficking and human rights violations, including the abuse of women.
This measure also freezes and prohibits all transactions of property held by the Taliban and invalidates all visas or other documents that allow entry into the United States.
This bill under the title of “Taliban Sanctions Act” will be introduced by Senator Jim Rish from the state of Idaho along with eighteen Republican senators.
Sen. Rish said Congress must act quickly to pass the bill because the Taliban’s influence will increase without a strong U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
In response to this bill by American senators, the Taliban government announced that applying pressure will not work and the United States should take the path of interaction instead of pressure.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said: The whole world, especially the Americans, should know that the time for applying pressure has passed and pressure does not yield any results. It is better that they share their proposals with us through diplomatic and legal ways.