John Simpson in his BBC Panorama programme showed the destruction of a nation and the desperation of the Afghan people. This is a preventable Human Rights abuse of unparalleled magnitude, starving - young girls, boys, men, women and the elderly.

I urge you to support this petition and demand the release of more than $9.5 billion of the country’s assets held by the US Federal Reserve.

General Lord Richards (former Chief of Defence Staff) said, “they had defeated us and we need to come to terms with this inconvenient fact”.

Live and let live, don’t punish the Afghan people give them back what is rightfully theirs.