Pakistan’s new condition for India to send wheat to Afghanistan
New Delhi, December 3,
Pakistan today imposed a new condition on the shipment of 50,000 tonnes of wheat and medicines from India to Afghanistan.
India has rejected Pakistan’s idea that it was not possible to send wheat by sea when Pakistan first asked India to send wheat to Afghanistan via Iranian port.
Indian lorries can bring wheat and medicines to the Indian-Pakistani border. Pakistan has said that the goods will be loaded on Pakistani trucks at the Pakistan border and taken to Afghanistan, for which India will have to pay a fee.
India has refused to accept that condition either.
India was adamant that wheat lorries should be loaded on Indian trucks and allowed to reach Afghanistan via Pakistan.
Indian Foreign Ministry officials from the Indian embassy in Islamabad can pick up the wheat sent by India from the Pakistani border and go to Afghanistan if they wish. Pakistan is ready to allow this on humanitarian grounds.
Pakistan’s new conditions delay the supply of food and medicine to Afghanistan. The people of Afghanistan are waiting to get food and medicine. Indian officials have again urged the Pakistani foreign ministry to inform Pakistan of its decision soon.
Special Envoy of the European Union
EU Special Envoy to Afghanistan Thomas Nicholson arrives in Delhi
He also met with officials from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and the office of National Security Adviser Ajit Doval.
The EU special envoy also met Pakistani embassy officials in New Delhi on Friday afternoon.
The EU special envoy later said that they had discussed opening a small office for the EU in Afghanistan and extending humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
Russia, Iran, China, Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and KSA all have offices in Afghanistan following the deployment of a team of officials to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
But this does not mean that all these countries recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
India has not yet decided when Indian officials will be sent to the Indian embassy in Kabul.
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