Local residents on Monday walk by a house destroyed by a deadly earthquake that destroyed villages in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar province.

The shrinking of funding for Afghanistan, led by U.S. aid cuts, was hampering the response on Monday to a powerful earthquake in the east, with dozens of clinics closed and a helicopter out of use, humanitarian officials said.

The magnitude 6 tremor hit overnight, levelling villages, killing at least 800 people and injuring more than 2,800 in remote mountainside areas.

The ruling Taliban administration and aid officials have a daunting task to rescue and help thousands of Afghans with a tinier budget than ever and an economy in crisis.

Taliban asks for international aid as earthquake devastates eastern Afghanistan

“The actual delivery of response

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