India will work with a "technical team" based in the capital of Afghanistan to help victims of the powerful earthquake that shook the country on Wednesday. I sent relief assistance to. Kabul.
"True First Responder, India" India Minister of Foreign Affairs Subramaniyam Jaishankar tweeted on Friday.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 27 tons of relief assistance includes family ridge tents, sleeping bags, blankets and sleeping bags.
"As always, India is in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan with whom we have shared centuries of relationships and will provide immediate relief to the people of Afghanistan. We continue to commit, "said the ministry's statement.
The ministry also said that New Delhi would place a "technical team" at the Kabul embassy to coordinate the "effective provision" of humanitarian aid in Afghanistan, where India has been providing aid in recent months. Stated.
India is sending 20,000 tonnes of wheat, medicines, 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine and winter clothing aid to Afghanistan.
Dispatching a technical team to Kabul is seen as the first step that could lead to reestablishing India's diplomatic presence in India, analysts say.
"LEA (Afghanistan Islamic Emirate) has decided to return the diplomat&technical team to the Kabul embassy in order to continue relations and humanitarian assistance with the people of Afghanistan. Welcome, "tweeted Taliban spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi.
During the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August, the Kabul embassy in India was closed and Indians were evacuated, but earlier this month India sent a team of officials to Afghanistan for the first time and the Taliban. Showed a decision to engage with the leader of the Taliban. ..
India was the region's largest provider of development assistance to Afghanistan prior to its acquisition, investing approximately $ 3 billion in projects involving schools, roads, dams and hospitals.
India wants to reestablish relations with a country where its great enemy Pakistan is exerting considerable influence. Of the regional countries, only India was left unrepresented in Afghanistan after the acquisition. China, Iran, Pakistan and Russia did not close the embassy in Kabul.
