PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Afghanistan needs urgent international humanitarian assistance to avert economic collapse, the Pakistani premier says.
Imran Khan hoped the OIC foreign ministers’ meeting would lend an impetus to member states to assist Afghanistan.
At a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Dr. Amir Hossein Abdollahiyan in Islamabad on Sunday, Khan urged the world to find additional ways of Afghanistan’s long-term reconstruction and infrastructure development.
Welcoming the Iranian minister on his first visit to Pakistan, Khan shared Islamabad’s perspective on the current economic situation in Afghanistan.
The premier believed Afghanistan needed urgent humanitarian assistance to stave off economic collapse and improve people’s living standards.
Dr. Abdollahiyan commended Pakistan’s decision to host the extraordinary session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers on Afghanistan.
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