SAARC CCI seeks assistance for Kabul
Farzana, 30, holds her one-year-old baby, Omar, at the malnutrition ward for infants of Indira Gandhi Children's hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 23, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS
It is better to engage Afghanistan and help normalise its economic conditions instead of weakening the country through unjustified and unwarranted unilateral sanctions, remarked Saarc Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Iftikhar Ali Malik.
Talking to a delegation of traders from south Punjab, led by former Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry vice president Chaudhary Zahid Iqbal Arain on Thursday, Malik urged the world, especially the United States and European Union, to extend huge financial assistance for Afghanistan, in order to avert the looming humanitarian crisis.
The US and EU were deliberating on the issue of Russia and Ukraine, but not on Afghanistan for lifting sanctions and unlocking its billions of dollars of foreign exchange reserves, he pointed out.
“Poor and depressed Afghans are struggling to feed their families, especially children, a majority of whom are facing malnutrition,” he lamented.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 4th, 2022.
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