Uzbekistan has provided 3,700 tons of humanitarian aid to war-torn Afghanistan to help needy people in the chilly winter.
The 3,700 tons were transported by 63 rail wagons to Afghanistan’s northern city Mazar-l-Sharif which was received by Afghan officials.
The 3,700 tons included foodstuffs, fuel, and winter clothes that will be distributed among destitute Afghans as the country is facing an economic crisis.
The deputy foreign minister of Afghanistan Sher Mohammad Abbas expressed gratitude and called for further enhancement of relations between Kabul and Tashkent.
Afghanistan was fighting for more than 20 years under the U.S-NATO war on terror which has caused an economic crisis after U.S and NATO forces withdrew and froze Afghanistan money which has left about 22 million people out of 36 million people living in the country with acute food insecurity.
To overcome the crisis, the Afghanistan government has called on the International community to provide humanitarian aid. So far many countries including China, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Qatar, among others have provided humanitarian aid to the country.
After the U.S withdraw from Afghanistan, billions of dollars in foreign aid that propped up the previous Western-backed government vanished and U.S sanctions on the Taliban isolated the country from the global financial system, paralyzing work by humanitarian organizations.
Across Afghanistan, from today laborers to doctors and teachers- have gone months without steady or any incomes.
The prices of food and other basic goods have soared beyond the reach of many families as emaciated children and anemic mothers flood into malnutrition wards of hospitals.
Afghanistan is also facing one of the worst droughts in decades which has withered fields, starved farm animals, and dried irrigation channels.
Because of the droughts, 70% of the population of the country who live in rural areas, many Framers have given up cultivating their land.
Now as freezing winter sets in, humanitarian organizations have warned that a million children could die. The situation is serious and damaging to the U.S which is facing mounting pressure to ease the economic restrictions that worsened the crisis.
