The Indian government is sending 20,000 tons of wheat through Iran’s Chabahar Port to Afghanistan that will arrive in the country this week, according to Indian media reports.
Earlier this year, at a security conference about Afghanistan in Moscow, India’s NSA chief Ajit Doval said his country will not abandon the people of Afghanistan in their time of need.
According to World Food Program, nine out of 10 families in Afghanistan cannot afford enough food and at least 20 million people in Afghanistan are faced with the threat of starvation.
Responding with humanitarian aid to Afghanistanistan’s food crisis, India’s first tranche of 2,500 metric tonnes of wheat sent through Iran’s Chabahar port is expected to arrive in Herat this week.
India has already sent 40,000 tons of wheat to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan through a land border with Pakistan after Islamabad agreed in a landmark decision. Pakistan doesn’t otherwise allow outbound trade from India through its territory.
Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the economy has failed to recover, keeping millions of people on the verge of starvation.
Driven by poverty, the children’s father had sold two of his daughters and was planning to sell the others too.
Human Rights Watch states that nearly 875,000 children face acute malnutrition while women and girls remain most at risk.
