Islamabad : Pakistan foreign Minister Called on Saturday for a new effort to stop the neighbor Afghanistan Delving further into the crisis, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) announced an extraordinary meeting later this month.
foreign ministers meeting Islamic countries will be held in Islamabad On 19 December, delegations from the European Union and the so-called P5 group from the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China were also invited.
“Leaving Afghanistan at this stage would be a historic mistake,” Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Hussain Qureshi told a news conference in Islamabad.
“Instability can give way to renewed conflict, it can trigger an exodus of refugees,” he said.
There are mounting warnings of a humanitarian crisis facing Afghanistan as international aid cuts abruptly Taliban The threat of disaster if the takeover on August 15 and the situation is not brought under control.
Help has been hampered, however, by sanctions on its handling of the Taliban, the US decision to freeze billions of dollars of central bank reserves held outside Afghanistan, and the collapse of much of the country’s banking system.
Pakistan recently agreed to allow India to move 50,000 tonnes of wheat to its territory to help Afghanistan, but aid agencies have warned that much more help is urgently needed. (Reporting by Syed Raza Hussain; Writing by James Mackenzie; Editing by David Clarke)
foreign ministers meeting Islamic countries will be held in Islamabad On 19 December, delegations from the European Union and the so-called P5 group from the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China were also invited.
“Leaving Afghanistan at this stage would be a historic mistake,” Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Hussain Qureshi told a news conference in Islamabad.
“Instability can give way to renewed conflict, it can trigger an exodus of refugees,” he said.
There are mounting warnings of a humanitarian crisis facing Afghanistan as international aid cuts abruptly Taliban The threat of disaster if the takeover on August 15 and the situation is not brought under control.
Help has been hampered, however, by sanctions on its handling of the Taliban, the US decision to freeze billions of dollars of central bank reserves held outside Afghanistan, and the collapse of much of the country’s banking system.
Pakistan recently agreed to allow India to move 50,000 tonnes of wheat to its territory to help Afghanistan, but aid agencies have warned that much more help is urgently needed. (Reporting by Syed Raza Hussain; Writing by James Mackenzie; Editing by David Clarke)
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