Pardafas Reporter
A Nepali team is set to fly to neighboring Afghanistan as the Nepali government has decided to provide humanitarian assistance to the war torn country.
Afghanistan, has been facing grave humanitarian crisis after the religious hardliners Taliban, took over the control of the country on August 15, 2021 following the retraction of American Army.
A Nepali team carrying various relief materials will fly to Afghanistan.
Sewa Lamsal, spokesperson at the Foreign Ministry, the team will leave Kathmandu for Afghanistan on a chartered flight of Himalayan Airlines. She further said that the team will return from the Kabul International Airport as soon as providing the relief package to the UN representatives there.
Nepal has decided to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan as the current chair of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Foreign Minister Narayan Khadka during a press meets today at the Tribhuvan International Airport. Afghanistan is one of the member states of SAARC.
Earlier, the United Nation had urged the member states to support Afghanistan to prevent any serious humanitarian. The World Food Program had warned of serious famine in the winter. The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres thus appealed for the assistance from all states. The WFP has also said that around 3.2 million children below five years will likely to lose their life if they could not meet the current crises there, also additional one million children will likely die if they could not get the required medicine on time.
Meanwhile, it has been known that the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI) handed over medicines worth Rs 2.3 million to Afghanistan through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
