Even when India continues to discuss modalities to transport 50,000 MT to Afghanistan through land routes, Iran Saturday offers to help India provide humanitarian assistance including wheat in the country.
Government sources say that wheat delivery through the Attari-Wagah border is still considered and the assistance will be sought from Iran only if this option falls.
India has shared detailed contractors and Afghan drivers who will teach wheat to Afghan and Pakistani media, quoting local sources, reported late last month that India and Pakistan approached to resolve the agreement to supply 50,000 MT of Indian wheat to Afghanistan.
Iran’s offer to India came in a conversation that Foreign Minister S Jaishankar had his colleague Hossein Amirabdolbahian Saturday where 2 leaders discussed the main bilateral and regional problems.
“Regarding Afghanistan, @amirabdolahian emphasized the need to form an inclusive government in the country.
He also refers to Indian humanitarian assistance to #afghanistan, announced the steps and cooperation by Iran to transfer this wheat assistance in the form of wheat, medicine …
for the country That, “Tweeted the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Sunday.
Significantly, Iran’s offer also came on the day of the Taliban Foreign Minister, Amir Muttaqi, arrived in Tehran to discuss the problem of “economy, transit and refugees”.
Even though it always has the choice to transport wheat through Chabahar wheat, it has helped develop in Iran.
The government, in fact, has supplied 75,000 MT wheat to Afghanistan through the same port in 2020.
However, India has so far not contemplated Chabahar options seems to be unsure about route security in Afghanistan which is likely to be used in that matter.
While India has sent 3 consignment of aid to Afghanistan, which consists mostly of sacrificial medicines, it is a wheat promise that the Taliban dispensation in Kabul, was paralyzed by acute food shortages, has been waiting for the most from India.
The Taliban Foreign Minister even raised the need for Pakistan to quickly approve Indian proposals for wheat delivery to Afghanistan during his meeting with Pakistan PM Imran Khan in Islamabad in November.
India reaffirmed last week that it stood committed to continuing special relationships with the Afghan people and gave them humanitarian assistance.
This is also the reason why, despite the reservation, it supports unsc resolutions last month intended to ensure sanctions against the Taliban do not hinder humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan.
While countries such as India and France want a short time limit for the release of Taliban sanctions, regardless of strong supervision, China and Russia ensure no time limit for liberation.
India also dramatically proposed to Pakistan, as was first reported by TOI on October 19, the latter allows wheat transportation through the Indian-Pakistani border.
Islamabad famously rejected the same proposal as India in 2002.