Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said half of the population in Afghanistan was in a very precarious situation because of hunger, malnutrition, and food shortages.
In an exclusive interview with CNN’s GPS host Fareed Zakaria, he said the present situation was already developing into one of the worst humanitarian crises in Afghanistan.
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He said, “People in the United States must understand one thing that it is a question of almost 40 million Afghans and half of them are in a very precarious situation.”
“There is hunger and the Afghan winter is extremely wicked, ruthless,” he said adding people in Afghanistan were facing winter and there were food shortages and malnutrition.
Earlier on Sunday, Interacting with former diplomats, representatives of think tank in Islamabad, the PM said the situation in Afghanistan was becoming very serious and provision of assistance to the Afghan people was a collective responsibility of the world community.
The prime minister further said everyone, except the United States, agreed to save Afghanistan from a humanitarian crisis and if the situation worsened, the US would also face difficulties.
He said that he had paid a successful visit to China and the visit was of utmost importance keeping in view the rapid growing relations between Pakistan and China.
Prime Minister Imran said all issues including economic affairs were discussed with President Xi Jinping.
He said Pakistan’s economy was moving to the right direction and the Chinese leadership had expressed confidence in it.
Imran Khan said that the government had dealt with the global pandemic with effective strategy which was being acknowledged by the whole world.
He said we had decided to save the economy and lives of the people at a same time imposing smart lockdown policy during the COVID-19. He said common men in different countries across the globe were severely affected by the epidemic.
PM Khan said that the prices of goods should be the same across the country. He said the government was facing a lot of problems after the 18th constitutional amendment and was working tirelessly to increase its revenue while meeting were being conducted constantly to create wealth creation increasing exports. He said without wealth creation the country cannot move toward development.
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Briefing the session, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the government was committed to complete all ongoing projects of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). He said some elements were trying to destabilise the project but the government would foil their nefarious designs.
Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said China helped us building our infrastructure and the government would address all the problems of Chinese investors in Pakistan.
