KABUL: With Afghanistan facing a severe humanitarian crisis, the Taliban regime made a big mistake by alienating India, which for more than two decades has helped the progress of the country including humanitarian sectors, civil aviation, telecommunications, transportation and education, according to a media.
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According to the Asian Lite newspaper, India has supplied military hardware, four MI-25 attack helicopters to the Afghan Air Force in 2015 and 285 military vehicles to the Afghan National Army.
In January 2009, the country has provided 250,000 metric tons of wheat to help Afghanistan Tide for the current food crisis and reconstruct the Children’s Health Institute of Indira Gandhi in Kabul as part of its humanitarian aid, the newspaper said.
In addition, India gave three Airbus aircraft, along with important spare parts, and trained airline officials to develop capacity in the Afghan civil aviation sector.
It recovered the emergency telecommunications infrastructure in 11 provinces in 2005 with installing equipment including digital telephone exchanges, with infrastructure facilities including towers and power supply systems, Asia Lite reported.
At the end of 2001, India had provided 400 buses to Afghanistan, where 205 was deployed in Kabul and balance in 25 Afghan Provinces after decades of destruction and faced with refugee ruling pressure, Kabul and the province found themselves losing public transportation facilities, he added.
In the education sector, India has assisted in the reconstruction of Habibia Schools, Kabul and 500 annual long-term university scholarships provided by India to Afghanistan, Asia Lite.
A spokesman for the UN Human Rights Council Babar Baloch said on Friday that around 23 million people, or 55 percent of the population, faced extreme hunger levels – almost nine million of them were at risk of hunger.
UNHCR has helped around 700,000 displaced people throughout the country in 2021, majority since mid-August.
Every week, the agency helps nearly 60,000 people, according to the statement.