Pak considering India’s request to extend deadline for humanitarian wheat transportation to Afghanan
Pakan on Friday said it is considering a request India to extend the deadline for the transportation of remaining 15,000 metric tonnes of wheat as humanitarian assance to war-torn Afghanan.
The first consignment of humanitarian aid of 2,500 tonnes of wheat from India reached Afghanan’s Jalalabad through Pakan on February 26. The second convoy carrying 2,000 MTs of wheat left Attari in Amritsar on March 3 for Jalalabad, Afghanan. India sent the third consignment of 2,000 metric tonnes of wheat to Afghanan in 40 trucks via the Attari-Wagah border on March 8.
India in June sent a fresh shipment of 3,000 metric tonnes of wheat to Afghanan via the Pakani land route.
“We have on numerous occasions extended the timeline, and I’m sure in order to enable this to be completed, this is being considered,” Foreign Office spokesman Asim Iftikhar Ahmed said at his weekly media briefing here.
Responding to a question on observer-level participation Pakan in the closing ceremony of the SCO-RATS (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation-Regional Anti-Terror Structure) exercise in India, Ahmed said the Indian participation was also at the same level in Pakan, “so that’s how our participation was expected to be”.
India is hosting the SCO-RATS drills at Manesar in Haryana in October. India is chairing the SCO RATS this year. Pakan is participating as an observer for the meeting at the closing ceremony.
