ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday once again urged the international community to provide immediate humanitarian relief to the millions of Afghans, who are facing an imminent starvation.
In a tweet, the prime minister also reminded that providing immediate relief to the impoverished Afghanistan is also obligatory under unanimously adopted UN principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P).
“There is an urgency for the international community as well as their obligation under the unanimously adopted UN principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) to provide immediate humanitarian relief to millions of Afghans on the brink of starvation,” the prime minister wrote in tweet.
The prime minister also tagged a news story published in the Guardian, carrying excerpts from an article written by former British premier Gordon Brown to UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, asking her to help convene a donor conference to raise $4.5bn (£3.3bn) for Afghanistan.
The former UK prime minister wrote that “we are witnessing a shameful but also self-defeating failure to prevent famine”, adding that the UK should urgently take a lead in resuming the delivery of aid dramatically halted after Taliban announced their government.
“The American-led coalition that ruled Afghanistan for 20 years under the banner of helping the Afghan people has still put up only a quarter of the money that would allow UN humanitarians to stop children dying this winter,” he further wrote.
