Pak contemplating India’s request to increase deadline for humanitarian wheat transportation to Afghanistan

Pakistan on Friday stated it’s contemplating a request by India to increase the deadline for the transportation of remaining 15,000 metric tonnes of wheat as humanitarian help to war-torn Afghanistan.

The first consignment of humanitarian assist of two,500 tonnes of wheat from India reached Afghanistan’s Jalalabad by way of Pakistan on February 26. The second convoy carrying 2,000 MTs of wheat left Attari in Amritsar on March 3 for Jalalabad, Afghanistan. India despatched the third consignment of two,000 metric tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan in 40 vans by way of the Attari-Wagah border on March 8.

India in June despatched a contemporary cargo of three,000 metric tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan by way of the Pakistani 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 stated at his weekly media briefing right here.

Responding to a query on observer-level participation by Pakistan within the closing ceremony of the SCO-RATS (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation-Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure) train in India, Ahmed stated the Indian participation was additionally on the identical stage in Pakistan, “so that’s how our participation was expected to be”.

India is internet hosting the SCO-RATS drills at Manesar in Haryana in October. India is chairing the SCO RATS this 12 months. Pakistan is taking part as an observer for the assembly on the closing ceremony.