{"id":64451,"date":"2020-04-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=64451"},"modified":"2020-04-24T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T06:21:00","slug":"pakistan-permits-bulk-food-import-for-supply-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-permits-bulk-food-import-for-supply-to-afghanistan.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan permits bulk food import for supply to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Advisor to the Prime Minister (PM) on Commerce Abdul Razzak Dawood on Tuesday said that the government had provided special permission for the bulk import of foods items through the Gwadar port for transit to Afghanistan \u2013 in a bid to maintain the latter&#8217;s food supplies amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic situation, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cpec-projects-relocation-of-afghan-refugees-likely.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CPEC projects: relocation of Afghan refugees likely<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the lockdown implementation in Pakistan and the closure of its western border, over 10,000 Afghan transit shipment containers have either been awaiting clearance at border stations of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sc-directs-govt-set-up-quarantine-centres-torkham-taftan-chaman-borders.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Torkham and Chaman<\/a>, or are stranded at the Karachi port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement-2010, the government has given special permission to handle Afghan cargo at Gwadar Port \u2013 which will resume supply of wheat, sugar, and fertilisers to Afghanistan. These cargoes will be transmitted in sealed trucks to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/gwadar-pakistan-considers-trade-route-central-asia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan mulls options to provide Gwadar port access to Russia, Central Asia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dawood further revealed that the commerce ministry has approved the import of the World Food Programme cargo of 500,000 tonnes of wheat and 16,000 tonnes of DAP for Afghanistan. He said that operationalisation of Gwadar port will also generate business and employment in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Advisor to the Prime Minister (PM) on Commerce Abdul Razzak Dawood on Tuesday said that the government had provided special permission for the bulk import of foods items through the Gwadar port for transit to Afghanistan \u2013 in a bid to maintain the latter&#8217;s food supplies amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic situation, according to news sources. Read: CPEC projects: relocation of Afghan refugees likely Following the lockdown implementation in Pakistan and the closure of its western border, over 10,000 Afghan transit shipment containers have either been awaiting clearance at border stations of Torkham and Chaman, or are stranded at the Karachi port. Under the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement-2010, the government has given special permission to handle Afghan cargo at Gwadar Port \u2013 which will resume supply of wheat, sugar, and fertilisers to Afghanistan. These cargoes will be transmitted in sealed trucks to Afghanistan. Read: Pakistan mulls options to provide Gwadar port access to Russia, Central Asia Dawood further revealed that the commerce ministry has approved the import of the World Food Programme cargo of 500,000 tonnes of wheat and 16,000 tonnes of DAP for Afghanistan. He said that operationalisation of Gwadar port will also generate business and employment in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":63188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15153],"tags":[27052,2412,27051],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-trade","8":"tag-afghanistan-pakistan-transit-trade-agreement-2010","9":"tag-gwadar-port","10":"tag-pakistan-permits-bulk-food-import-for-supply-to-afghanistan","11":"cat-15153-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan permits bulk food import for supply to Afghanistan - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Advisor to the Prime Minister (PM) on Commerce Abdul Razzak Dawood said that the government had given special permission for the bulk import of foods items\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-permits-bulk-food-import-for-supply-to-afghanistan.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan permits bulk food import for supply to Afghanistan - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Advisor to the Prime Minister (PM) on Commerce Abdul Razzak Dawood said that the government had given special permission for the bulk import of foods items\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-permits-bulk-food-import-for-supply-to-afghanistan.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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