Pakistan invested around $1 billion in socio-economic projects in Afghanistan.

[Khanate]

The next 72 pages on this thread will look like this:

Group A: Why didn't we make this in Pakistan? Why make it for ingrate Afghans? (bet: first 15 posts)

Group B: Good (bet: first 15 posts)

Group C: It's time to annex Afghanistan (bet: within 12 pages)

Group D: Good. Send the refugees back (bet: within 2 pages)

Indians: Will say something to set the Pakistanis off (bet: within 36 pages)

Thread Closed (pages 70-72).

Group E: Enjoyer gang with popcorns

 

[Baz2020]

Pakistani charity, hospitality and brotherhood is world class you know

 

[Chakar The Great]

Despite the fact that Pakistan is 1/7th size of India.


Pakistan never boosted about its contribution.

On top of that over 5 million Afghans live in Pakistan.

 

[TheDarkKnight]

Let' see what happens to the thread, but before it's closure, please let me just say that the pursuit of national interests is a matter of priorities in determining allocation of resources. I see nothing wrong with this, as long as the national benefits outweigh the returns for any other allocation of these funds.

We have one from Group B here.

 

[ghazi52]

PAF aircraft carrying relief goods lands in Kabul

Pakistani envoy says two more flights scheduled in as many days; aid to continue through air, land routes


APP
September 09, 2021

KABUL: A C-130 aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force carrying relief goods landed in Kabul on Thursday.

Pakistan ambassador to Afghanistan Mansoor Ahmad Khan said today's flight was "just a beginning of the humanitarian assistance for the people of the country".

Ambassador received the supplies at the Hamid Karzai International Airport and handed them over to Afghan officials.

Talking to media persons, the envoy said the relief goods included around 10 tonnes of flour, 1.5 tonnes of ghee and a huge quantity of emergency medicine.

Ambassador Mansoor Ahmad Khan pictured at the delivery of the goods at the Hamid Karzai International Airport. PHOTO: APP

“With first such flight, this is just a beginning of the humanitarian assistance for the people of Afghanistan, as more would be carried out in coming days,” he remarked.

Khan further stated that two more C-130 flights carrying relief goods would be arranged for Kandahar and Khost on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

He said the activity would continue for weeks and months, and Pakistan’s public and private sectors and charity organisations will be sending humanitarian supplies to Afghanistan in a systematic way.

The relief goods included around 10 tonnes of flour, 1.5 tonnes of ghee and a huge quantity of emergency medicine. PHOTO: APP

Beside air routes, the envoy maintained, the goods would be transported through Pakistan’s land routes, including the Torkham and Chaman borders.

A day earlier, it was reported that the government had decided to dispatch humanitarian assistance comprising food and medicines for the people of Afghanistan, the Foreign Office had said in a statement.

"Three C-130s are being dispatched to Afghanistan. After the first immediate tranche through the air, further supplies would continue through land routes," it added. The statement said that the government will continue to do its best to help Afghan brethren during the prevalent challenging environment.

"Pakistan also urges the international community to play its role in helping the people of Afghanistan to avert a possible humanitarian crisis," it further read.

 

[ghazi52]

PAF C-130 landed at Kandahar, Bringing humanitarian aid including food and medical supplies.

This was 2nd C-130 of PAF carrying aid to Afghanistan, a PAF C-130 landed landed in Kabul yesterday with humanitarian aid.

 

[TNT]

These are great steps taken by Pakistan. We should also start to invest in Afghanistan, our private sector should be given opportunities. Such projects create connections and dependencies, interlinking economies. We should have the major chunk of future business and work in Afghanistan. We need to have a good soft power in Afghanistan now.

 

[khansaheeb]

The next 72 pages on this thread will look like this:

Group A: Why didn't we make this in Pakistan? Why make it for ingrate Afghans? (bet: first 15 posts)

Group B: Good (bet: first 15 posts)

Group C: It's time to annex Afghanistan (bet: within 12 pages)

Group D: Good. Send the refugees back (bet: within 2 pages)

Indians: Will say something to set the Pakistanis off (bet: within 36 pages)

Thread Closed (pages 70-72).

wtf, Why didn't we make this in Pakistan? Why make it for ingrate Afghans?????

 

[ghazi52]

ISLAMABAD, Sept 11 (APP): Third consignment of relief goods from the Government of Pakistan has reached Khost, Afghanistan on Saturday which was received by the Afghan provincial authorities.


Deputy Governor Khost Molana Mohammad Din Shah Mutib, Hafiz Rasheed Nabi, brother of Governor Khost, Molvi Nasir Tofan, Molvi Haidar, deputy IGP, Dr Habib Shah Ansari, director, public health and official of Pakistan Consulate, Jalalabd were present on the occasion.

The tranche included cooling oil, flour, and life-saving drugs.

 

[Battlion25]

These are great steps taken by Pakistan. We should also start to invest in Afghanistan, our private sector should be given opportunities. Such projects create connections and dependencies, interlinking economies. We should have the major chunk of future business and work in Afghanistan. We need to have a good soft power in Afghanistan now.

This is a good initiative

 

[ghazi52]

PIA to start commercial flights to Kabul from September 13

https://nation.com.pk/NewsSource/web-desk
Web Desk
7:44 PM | September 11, 2021

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will resume flights from Islamabad to Kabul next week, a spokesman revealed on Saturday, becoming the first foreign commercial service since the Taliban seized power last month.

Kabul airport was severely damaged during a chaotic evacuation of over 120,000 people that ended with the withdrawal of US forces on August 30.

"We have got all technical clearances for flight operations," PIA spokesman Abdullah Hafeez Khan stated.

"Our first commercial plane is scheduled to fly from Islamabad to Kabul on September 13."
He further added that the service would depend on demand.

In the last two days Qatar Airways has operated two charter flights out of Kabul, carrying mostly foreigners and Afghans who missed being taken out during the evacuation.

 

[ghazi52]

Border Trade.

Face off: Taliban fighters and Pakistani soldiers guard the busy Torkham border crossing side by side


The Khyber Pass is one of the world's great invasion routes - forbidding, steep and treacherous, stretching from the Afghan border to the Valley of Peshawar, 20 miles (32 km) below, in Afghanistan.


For three thousand years, armies have struggled through these rocky defiles and camped in its valleys. You can still see the insignia of regiments from the British and British Indian armies, which continue to be carefully maintained, along the sides of the road, overlooked by the forts they once built and guarded. From the rocks above, Pashtun tribesmen armed with ancient jezails, or flintlock rifles, would snipe at passing soldiers with amazing accuracy.

Nowadays trucks laden with agricultural produce from Afghanistan labour round the sharp bends, sometimes with men and boys clinging to the side of them for the ride. On the pathways beside the road, old men trudge along, bent double under boxes of smuggled goods.


'An atmosphere of fear and urgency'

The Khyber Pass ends at Torkham - Afghanistan's busiest border crossing with Pakistan.

Several years ago the Pakistani authorities completely revamped it. Now the crowds waiting there are better marshalled than they used to be, but there's an atmosphere of fear and urgency as people try to escape from Afghanistan's new rulers, the Taliban. You can see them from the Pakistani side, crowding together behind the wire in the midday heat, waving their documents and begging to be allowed through. For the most part, only people who have permission to leave Afghanistan on medical grounds can cross, together with their families.

The long line, cluttered with wheelchairs and suitcases, shuffles slowly forward through the various checkpoints.

Taliban and Pakistani guards may work relatively peacefully at the border - but they are not friends


On the road, where the actual border runs, a couple of Pakistani soldiers stand face to face with Taliban guards wearing makeshift uniforms.

The Taliban had no objection to talking to me. I asked one of them, a big man with a bushy beard covered by a face-mask, why the national green and red flag of Afghanistan wasn't flying over the border post. It has been replaced by the white flag of the Taliban, inscribed with the Shahada, the basic statement of the Muslim faith: "There is no god but God, and Muhammad is His messenger."

"Our country is now an Islamic Caliphate," the border guard answered proudly, "and this is the correct flag for the whole country."

John Simpson and his team interview a Taliban border guard

 

[ghazi52]

𝙏𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮: 𝙄𝙣𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙝𝙖𝙢 - 𝙅𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙖𝙙 𝙍𝙤𝙖𝙙 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝘼𝙛𝙜𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣

 

[ghazi52]

Ambassador Mansoor, Afghan foreign minister Muttaqi discuss bilateral cooperation

BR Web Desk
14 Sep 2021

Pakistan's Ambassador to Afghanistan Mansoor Ahmad Khan met on Tuesday Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, the first meeting since the Taliban announced its interim government.

 

[ghazi52]

Pakistan begins dispatching humanitarian aid to Afghanistan via Torkham


13 truckloads of fresh consignment comprises food items including flour, sugar, cooking oil, pulses and rice


APP
September 19, 2021

Another four trucks of humanitarian assistance would also be crossing through Torkham soon. PHOTO: APP

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday started dispatching humanitarian aid to Afghanistan through land route and sent 13 truckloads of fresh consignment of humanitarian assistance to the war-torn country through Torkham border crossing.

The consignment weighing tonnes consisted of food items including flour, sugar, cooking oil, pulses and rice.

Another four trucks of humanitarian assistance would also be crossing through Torkham soon.
Pakistan’s Consul General in Jalalabad Abidullah received the consignment at Torkham from Pak-Afghan Cooperation Forum. These humanitarian goods will be dispatched for distribution among needy people in various Afghan provinces.

Pakistan is in the forefront of countries providing relief assistance to Afghanistan to meet the current challenges.

Earlier, Pakistan dispatched four C-130 loaded with food and medicines to Kabul, Kandahar, Khost and Mazar-e-Sharif.

These supplies along with the additional items such as blankets and tents to help people meet the needs of upcoming winter season will be continued in the coming weeks.

This humanitarian assistance is reflective of the fraternal ties between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the two peoples.