{"id":19768,"date":"2026-08-16T09:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/16\/afghanistan-trust-fund-assets-reach-661-million\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T09:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:01:44","slug":"afghanistan-trust-fund-assets-reach-661-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/16\/afghanistan-trust-fund-assets-reach-661-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan trust fund&#8217;s assets reach $661 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shah Mohammad Mehrabi, a member of the board of the Afghanistan Trust Fund, said the fund&#8217;s assets have reached $661 million since its establishment.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the fund&#8217;s assets were not intended to finance humanitarian aid or cover government expenses, but rather were created to preserve Afghanistan&#8217;s foreign exchange reserves.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mehrabi, the fund was established after part of Afghanistan&#8217;s assets remained frozen abroad and the need arose for a mechanism to safeguard them.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan Trust Fund was created in Switzerland in September 2022. It was established to hold $3.5 billion in Afghan assets transferred by the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan Trust Fund assets have reached $661 million since its creation, according to board member Shah Mohammad Mehrabi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}