Afghanistan: Tajik president calls for increased aid to Afghans

KABUL, 11 April 2022, (TON): Tajikistan President’s official website has said “president Emamoli Rahman met with the EU special representative for Afghanistan Tomas Niklasson and emphasized that an increase in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan is needed.”

Emamoli Rahman and Tomas Niklasson met in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe. Niklasson was in the country on a working visit.

The website reads that both discussed Afghanistan’s current political, military, and socioeconomic situation which directly affects the situation in the region.

Tajikistan’s president reportedly expressed concern over the growing threat of international terrorism, extremism, transnational organized crimes, trafficking in narcotics and weapons, and cybercrimes.

The call on the rising need for Afghanistan comes as over half of the Afghan population needs life-saving assistance while 95 percent are under the poverty line.

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