New Delhi: The Islamabad government allowed India to use its territory to send 50 thousand tons of wheat to Afghanistan. The financial condition of Afghanistan weaken in the last few weeks as foreign troops left the country and the Taliban comes to the authority.
According to the Afghan government official – Pakistan will allow India to send 50,000 tons of wheat through its territory to neighboring Afghanistan, which is reeling under a severe hunger crisis as its economy has stalled since the Taliban took over in August.
Sulaiman Shah Zaheer, a spokesman of the Afghanistan Ministry of Commerce and Industries said that “The issue has now been resolved, and India can now send the wheat to Afghanistan via the Wagah border in Pakistan.”
According to the World Food Program report, the aid will be the first such consignment from New Delhi, which is yet to recognize the country’s new Taliban regime. Pakistan, Iran, and UAE are among the other nations that have provided Afghanistan with food and medical supplies. More than half of the country’s nearly 40 million people are likely to face acute food shortage and nine million are already on brink of starvation.
Last month Pakistan had denied India’s request to send the wheat because of the fractious relationship between the two South Asian nations.
(_Vinayak)
