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UK scrambling to find way to send aid to Afghanistan without violating sanctions

• Taliban officials, many now in government, named in sanctions• Foreign Office meets banks, financial institutions and NGOs Taliban forces stand guard at a roadside checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday. Photograph: EPA The UK Foreign Office is to hold urgent meetings with banks, financial institutions and NGOs to clarify how to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan without breaching US or UN counterterror sanctions. The takeover of the country by the Taliban, which is internationally