Pakistan says Afghan trucks can carry Indian aid to Afghanistan
The Hindu
India discusses EU plans to staff mission in Kabul
As India stepped up efforts “without conditionalities”, Pakistan announced on Friday that it would allow Indian aid to pass through on Afghan trucks, dropping an earlier demand that Pakistani trucks be used.
The announcement came even as European Union (EU) special envoy on Afghanistan Tomas Niklasson was in Delhi, where he met officials of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the National Security Adviser’s office. .
“We discussed our plans to staff positions in Kabul, get humanitarian aid in as part of a contribution of 300 million euros,” Mr. Niklasson told The Hindu about his interactions with Indian counterparts, including Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla, MEA point person J.P. Singh and Deputy NSAs Rajendra Khanna and Pankaj Saran.