KABUL: The second consignment of up to 2,000 tons of wheat from India is on its way to Afghanistan, a report said Sunday.
The 36-truck fleet is said to take its way to Afghanistan from Pakistan through the Wagah border in Lahore, on Saturday evening. A Pakistani newspaper, Dawn quoted an unnamed official as saying Afghanistan found it hard to lift the entire wheat stock of 50,000 tons from India within the stipulated timeframe of a month. So far, the newspaper said, Afghanistan had transported only 4,500 tons of the India- donated wheat from February 22 to March 5. Around 45,500 tons of wheat remain to be lifted, according to the source.
The Kabul Times
Over 30 Indian truckloads wheat on way to Afghanistan
