Pakistan, China urge world to send humanitarian aid to Kabul

ISLAMABAD — In a uncommon associated appeal, the leaders of Pakistan and China connected Tuesday urged the planetary assemblage to swiftly nonstop humanitarian and economical assistance to Afghanistan, wherever radical are facing nutrient and medicine shortages successful the shadiness of winter.

A authorities connection said Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed Afghanistan by phone, saying afterward that radical determination request planetary assistance “to alleviate their suffering, forestall instability” and rebuild aft the United States withdrew and the Taliban seized powerfulness successful August.

The latest improvement came a time aft Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with the Taliban representatives successful Qatar to sermon a scope of issues.

Pakistan and China are a longtime allies and on with different countries, they’ve sent humanitarian assistance to Kabul implicit the past 2 months.

Pakistan wants the satellite assemblage to unfreeze Afghanistan’s assets to alteration Kabul usage its ain wealth to avert the deepening crisis.

Currently, the Taliban authorities does not person entree to the Afghanistan cardinal bank’s $9 cardinal successful reserves, astir of which is held by the New York Federal Reserve.