India despatched 2,500 metric tonnes of humanitarian help to war-torn Afghanistan on Tuesday.

Foreign secretary of India Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to India Farid Mamundzay, and World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director Bishaw Parajauli watched as 41 Afghani vehicles rolled out of the Integrated Check Post on the Attari-Wagah border.

“We have been extending our humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, in the form of 50,000 tonnes of wheat. Today, our 1st consignment of 2,500 metric tonnes in Afghan trucks was flagged off today. It will be delivered to the World Food Programme for dissemination,” Shringla stated.

Under its cope with Pakistan, India sends vehicles of wheat via Attari-Wagah. This was the primary lot of fifty,000 tonnes of wheat that India promised Afghanistan after a pact with the World Food Programme for the reason that Taliban took over the nation in mid-August. World Food Programme will obtain the cargo at Jalalabad and distribute it throughout Afghanistan.

India beforehand despatched 5,00,000 doses of Covaxin, 13 tonnes of life-saving medicines, and 500 models of winter clothes.

Meanwhile, Mamundzay tweeted about his go to to Amritsar on Tuesday.”I’m again to the historic metropolis of Amritsar after lower than 6 weeks & this time to witness the flagging off ceremony of India’s wheat help cargo of fifty,000 metric tons to Afghanistan at this time. Amritsar, a phenomenal metropolis with wealthy historical past & proud tradition is the shortest land,” he stated in his tweet.