Pakistan's Economic Assistance to Afghanistan

[Edevelop]

Minister for Planning, Development and Reform Ahsan Iqbal has stressed the need of speedy implementation of reconstruction and rehabilitation projects in Afghanistan.

Chairing the 11th meeting of Committee for Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of Afghanistan in Islamabad, he said this would strengthen bilateral relations with brotherly neighboring country.

Pakistan is the largest Muslim donor country to Afghanistan and in tandem with international obligations, it has also pledged support in the process of reconstruction and rehabilitation of Afghanistan with the size of aid package up to five hundred million dollars.

A total of 29 projects have been approved by CRRA on recommendation of the Pak-Afghan Joint Economic Commission.

Federal Minister said that the Scholarship Programme to Afghan students and officials should also be used to enhance people to people contacts between both neighboring states, and interactive sessions of Afghan scholars benefiting the award program should be organized regularly.

He said through scholarship programme, government offers scholarships to Afghan youth for their capacity building through imparting quality education with 3,000 scholarships in various field including Medicine, Engineering, Agriculture, Management and computer science. 1712 Afghan students have been enrolled till now.

Radio Pakistan

 

[Shabaz Sharif]

@Pak-one un das

 

[Edevelop]

Credit: NESPAK

 

[Shabaz Sharif]

Jinnah Hospital in Afghanistan, mashallah. Even Muhammad Iqbal university.

 

[Edevelop]

 

[Edevelop]

 

[arushbhai]

Wait, are we funding these projects out of our pockets or we just got the projects as contractors?

 

[Shabaz Sharif]

Wait, are we funding these projects out of our pockets or we just got the projects as contractors?

Our pockets, desgind by Nespak.

 

[That Guy]

And the Afghan's say that Pakistan has done nothing good for them.

 

[arushbhai]

Our pockets, desgind by Nespak.

Wtf? Why? No need to give them a single dollar. These guys talk shit about Pakistan and its armed forces day and night. Plus we are looking after their lazy slob refugees for the last 20 years. Hadharaam log, they have absolutely no motivation to do anything, even their kids have grown up in those refugee camps.

 

[Kompromat]

And the Afghan's say that Pakistan has done nothing good for them.

Pakistanis will remain dal khor evil even if you gave them a mountain of gold. These folks can't change, simple as that.

 

[Progressive1]

giving scholarships at Pak unis is the best help we can offer also consider ease for students because of less language/cultural gap.

 

[xyxmt]

What is the point of all these projects, Afghanis will always be thankless back stabbers

 

[Chak Bamu]

The best long-term help for Afghanistan can be to provide their students scholarships in Pakistani Universities across Pakistan. I am not against these projects, since they have some value. But we need to carve a constituency of educated people in Afghanistan who at least understand our concerns vis-a-vis Afghanistan and their erstwhile support to India at expense of Pakistan during years of Zahir Shah.

 

[Jf Thunder]

look at all the gratitude we are getting