India: First shipment of Indian wheat to Afghanistan to be sent via Wagah today

NEW DELHI, 22 February 2022, (TON): The first shipment of 10,000 tonnes of wheat from India for the people of Afghanistan will be despatched via the Attari-Wagah land border crossing, with more food supplies and other humanitarian assistance expected to follow in the coming weeks.

The shipment is being sent after the Indian and Pakistani sides finalised modalities for transporting the wheat via Pakistani land routes after weeks of negotiations.

India first offered to send 50,000 tonnes of wheat via the Attari-Wagah crossing on October 7, and received an initial response from Pakistan on November 24. Since then, the two countries have been engaged in talks on the modalities.

The first shipment will be formally flagged off at Attari-Wagah in the presence of India and Pakistani officials and representatives of the World Food Programme (WFP), which is responsible for distributing the wheat in Afghanistan.

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