PM Imran urges international community to provide immediate relief to Afghans

PM Imran urges international community to provide immediate relief to Afghans

Islamabad (Web Desk): Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday urged the international community to provide immediate humanitarian relief to millions of Afghans on the brink of starvation.

In a tweet the premier said that there is an urgency and obligation for the international community under the unanimously adopted United Nations (UN) principle of Responsibility To Protect (R2P).

The premier also tagged a news report published in the Guardian daily, UK, carrying excerpts from an article written by former British premier Gordon Brown to UK foreign secretary, Liz Truss, calling on her to help convene a donor conference to raise $4.5bn (£3.3bn) for Afghanistan.

The former UK PM in his article, had warned that more than 23 million people were at risk of starvation if aid did not materialize.

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