ISLAMABAD, Nov 23 (NNN-APP) – Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, yesterday urged the international community, to fulfill its collective responsibility, to avoid a humanitarian crisis confronting the people of Afghanistan.
“The world owed its support, to ensure that they (people of Afghanistan) can live in a peaceful and stable environment, after years of constant conflict,” Khan said, while chairing a meeting of the Apex Committee of Afghanistan Inter-Ministerial Coordination Cell, in Islamabad.
During the meeting, Khan ordered the immediate shipment of in-kind humanitarian assistance worth five billion Pakistani rupees (around 29 million U.S. dollars) to Afghanistan, which will comprise food commodities, including wheat, emergency medical supplies, winter shelters and other supplies.
He also directed concerned authorities, to revive bus service between Pakistan’s Peshawar and Afghanistan’s Jalalabad city, to facilitate travellers on both sides.
Khan instructed all Pakistani ministries, to facilitate Afghans to the maximum. He also approved in-principle tariff and sales tax reduction, on key Afghan exports to Pakistan.– NNN-APP
