Pakistan said on Friday it will allow 50,000 tones of wheat and medicines to be shipped from India to Afghanistan via the Wagah land border crossing in Afghan trucks, ending an impasse over the transportation of the humanitarian aid.
On Taliban’s request, Imran Khan grants access to 50,000 MT Indian wheat for Afghanistan
Pakistan has announced that it will grant access to 50,000 MT Indian wheat bound for Afghanistan as the war-torn country grapples with food shortage. Pakistan PM Imran Khan made the announcement at a high-level meeting on Afghanistan and also announced to allow stranded Afghans in India to return to their home country via Afghanistan.
The Pakistan government’s decision was conveyed to the charge d’affaires of the Indian high commission at the Foreign Office in Islamabad. “The Indian government was also urged to proceed quickly to take necessary steps to expeditiously undertake the delivery of the humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan,” said a statement from Pakistan’s foreign ministry.
The Pakistani statement said the government had decided to “allow the use of Afghan trucks for transportation from Wagah border to Torkham”, a key border crossing between Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province.
The statement reiterated the Pakistani side’s position that it was allow the transportation of the wheat and medicines from India via the Wagah border crossing on an “exceptional basis for humanitarian purposes”. The statement added that Friday’s decision reflected the Pakistan government’s commitment and seriousness to facilitate the proposed humanitarian aid.
