Due to the lack of diplomatic relations between the Taliban government and the European countries, there are obstacles to the return of these antiquities, there is no possibility of access to them.
Dawn Staff Reporter
London: NATO countries looted 5,000-year-old antiquities worth more than 6 billion dollars from Afghanistan during the twenty-year war and placed them in museums in Europe. Valuables were moved in safe cartons before being handed over to the Kabul Taliban. Some important antiquities were taken with them by former government officials and later sold in Europe. According to sources, other European countries including Germany, Spain, France, and Great Britain, whose forces were present in Afghanistan and when the Qatar negotiations were on the way to success, they Officials of the countries transferred these antiquities to Europe in the name of keeping them safe from the Taliban, including 5,000-year-old Buddhist statues, Prussian Empire jewelry, statues from the reign of Darius and other antiquities. According to the survey, about 29,000 valuable antiquities have disappeared from Afghanistan, most of which are in the European market, while some valuable antiquities have been looted by the government officials of the Ashraf Ghani government and kept in their possession so that they can sell them at the appropriate time.
Afghan antiquities worth 6 billion dollars became the adornment of British and European museums
