Pakistani PM Imran Khan said Friday Islamabad would goodly consider Indian proposals to provide wheat to Afghanistan through land routes that passed Pakistan.
While India has not officially heard from Pakistan in the proposal, the announcement by the Khan office is still very significant because the guarantee by Pakistani PM comes in a meeting with the Taliban Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, in Islamabad.
It was also present against the recent game that saw Pakistan NSA Moeed Yusuf called India Spoiler in Afghanistan and rejected Indian invitations to participate in the NSA conference held by India this week.
ToI first reported on October 19 that India was looking to transport 50,000 MT to Afghanistan and deal with Pakistan to send it through the Gagah-Attari border.
`The Prime Minister said that in the current context of Pakistan would well consider demand by Afghan brothers for wheat transportation offered by India through Pakistan with the extraordinary basis for humanitarian purposes and in accordance with modalities,” Tweeted Pakistan PMO after a meeting of Khan with muttaqi.
The former Indian High Commissioner for Pakistan TCA Raghavan said land transportation through Pakistan can set a good precedent for regional cooperation.
`If land transportation through Pakistan takes place, it will greatly help Afghanistan and also establish a good precedent for regional cooperation,” said Raghavan.
Pakistan was famous in 2002, when India was looking to help Afghanistan trapped in the same humanitarian crisis, refused Indian demand for wheat shipments to Afghanistan through land borders.
Since then it then rejects all Indian requests like that.
After that approached Pakistan because facilitating wheat delivery, India officially offered assistance to Afghanistan in a meeting with the Taliban delegation on the Moscow format margin in Moscow in Moscow.
While the Taliban immediately announced that India had offered assistance, a few days later the Taliban Ambassador – pointed to the United Nations, Suhail Shaheen, told Ti that the Taliban was ready to receive assistance from India and also gave them security to them.
carry out their normal diplomatic tasks.
Since the NSA conference on Wednesday, the Taliban had been welcomed twice a meeting chaired by NSA Ajit Doval and said they wanted to have a good diplomatic bond with India.
India remains one of the main suppliers of wheat to Afghanistan and has provided 75,000 MT of seeds to Afghanistan by 2020 through Chabahar Port in Iran.
The government wants the United Nations to monitor the distribution of thought to ensure it is not discriminatory.
Pakistan for ‘profitable’ considering Indian demand for wheat delivery to Afghanistan
