Taliban-ruled Afghanistan on brink of ‘horrific’ mass starvation as harsh winter sets in

After nearly four months since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the war- torn country is on point of mass starvation as further than half the population face acute hunger amid indurating temperatures. The United Nations World Food Program said in a report that Afghanistan’s frugality has been in freefall since the Taliban took control of the country after ousting the Western- backed government. 

 The profitable extremity and limited vacuity of cash have created a new class of empty as, for the first time, civic residers are facing food instability at analogous rates to pastoral communities, according to the UN agency. WFP chief David Beasley, who lately visited Afghanistan, said his platoon is in a “ race against time” to forestall a philanthropic catastrophe in the country. 

“ What’s passing in Afghanistan is just terrible,” said Beasley. “ I met families with no jobs, no cash and no food, maters who vended one child to feed another, and the lucky children who made it to the sanitarium. The world can not turn its reverse as the Afghan people starve.” 

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.As harsh downtime sets in, philanthropic associations have advised that a million children could lose their lives. The New York Times reported that the food instability and impending mass starvation could be potentially ruinous for the new Taliban government as well the United States which has assessed profitable restrictions while it measures the conduct of the Sunni Pashtun group. 

 Mary-Ellen McGroarty, WFP’s country director for Afghanistan, supplicated the transnational community to respond to the “ riffle of hunger”. 

“ We need to separate the philanthropic imperative from the political conversations,” she said. “ The innocent people of Afghanistan, the children … who have their lives reared through no fault of their own, can not be condemned to hunger and starvation just because of the lottery of geopolitics and the lottery of birth.”