ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged international community to fulfil its collective responsibility to avert a grave humanitarian crisis confronting people of Afghanistan.
In a tweet on Thursday, he said Pakistan has always stood with the Afghan people in their hour of need.
The Prime Minister said we have assured Afghan acting Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi and his delegation that we will provide all possible humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.
He said we are sending essential food items, emergency medical supplies and winter shelters to provide immediate relief to Afghan people.
The Prime Minister said we will also provide free Covid-19 vaccines to all Afghans travelling across the border into Pakistan.
Read more: Int’l engagement with Afghanistan crucial to avoid economic collapse: FM Qureshi
Earlier in the day, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday has reiterated that it was crucial for the international community to ‘avoid mistakes’ of the past and pursue positive engagement with the Taliban regime to avert economic collapse or civil war in the country.
Addressing the opening session of 9th meeting of Troika Plus in Islamabad, the foreign minister pointed out that engagement with Afghanistan was important as nobody wished to see a relapse into civil war and an economic collapse in Kabul.
The meeting, held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was attended by Special Representatives of China, Pakistan, Russia and the United States, and the visiting delegation of the interim government of Afghanistan led by acting FM Amir Muttaqi.
