India’s Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan
On 26th February, 2022, the first shipment of 2,500 metric tonnes of wheat sent by India for Afghan people through the land border route as part of a humanitarian aid reached Jalalabad town of Afghanistan.
- This was done as per India’s recent agreement with the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP).
- Recently, India supplied 5 lakh doses of Covaxin vaccines and 13 tonnes of essential lifesaving medicines to Afghanistan.
The Agreement
- On 12th February, 2022, India signed an agreement with the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) for the distribution of 50,000 metric tonnes of wheat that it has committed to sending ....

