KABUL (Pajhwok): The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, with the support of Uzbekistan on Wednesday sent 12 trucks carrying over 48,000 blankets to Afghanistan to provide life-saving assistance to forcibly displaced persons and other vulnerable people in Afghanistan during harsh winter.
In a statement, UNHCR said the consignments were dispatched from UNHCR’s Regional Humanitarian Logistics Hub through the International Multifunctional Transport and Logistics Hub in Termez, Uzbekistan. Located in the Termez Cargo Centre --- two kilometers from the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan border, the hub enables UNHCR to rapidly replenish national stockpiles, in the region and be more agile in its . . .
