Adviser on National Security Moeed Yusuf has urged the international community to deliver humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people.
In an interview with CNN, he said that Pakistan was doing whatever it could and sending the supplies to the war-torn neighbouring country. Yusuf said that the country also offered to become the air and land bridge for the international organizations to send the necessary supplies to Afghanistan.
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The federal cabinet on Tuesday granted permission to arch-rival India to use its land route to ship 50,000 metric tonnes of wheat aid to Afghanistan where millions of people face hunger as a harsh winter sets in.
Islamabad will also send humanitarian assistance worth Rs5billion, comprising wheat, emergency medical supplies, winter shelters and other supplies to Afghanistan.
According to the World Food Program (WFP), about 23 million Afghans were going to be acutely short of food this winter, the adviser on national security told CNN during the interview.
Yusuf said that the western media outlets were reporting that women were selling their children to get household commodities in Afghanistan.
The real issue was, he added, why not the international humanitarian organizations were being allowed to get money in Afghanistan to provide assistance and provide salaries to the health staff.
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Responding to a question, the adviser on national security replied that border management was crucial for us because we could not afford that the international terrorists in Afghanistan again create trouble for us.
Yusuf maintained that India and the Afghan intelligence were both supporting terrorists for the past 20 years.
