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Kabul University launches donation collection point for earthquake relief
The leadership of Kabul University has organized a collection point on campus for donations for Herat’s earthquake victims.
Saturday’s earthquakes left over 2,400 dead and hundreds of families homeless.
For the next two days, members of the public can drop off cash donations at the university.
Salahuddin Ayubi, deputy head of student affairs at Kabul University, said that the cash donations will be transparently distributed to the victims of the Herat earthquakes.
“The process of collecting donations at Kabul University has started today and Inshallah, it will continue until tomorrow,” said Ayubi.
Simultaneously, some Kabul University professors asked national traders and investors to step forward and help Herat quakes victims.
“It is not only our moral responsibility but also our religious obligation. Let's help those who are harmed in these incidents, the help provided here is within the ability of students and professors,” said a Kabul University professor.
“To increase these contributions, this is a necessity and this is our Islamic obligation because we must hold the hand of our Muslim brother in difficult times,” said another professor.
A number of Kabul University students, meanwhile, say when a natural disaster harms the citizens of the country, it is a collective responsibility to take care of them.
“As a citizen, we must be responsible and we must cooperate with them, we must hold their hands because this may happen to each of us one day,” said a student.
In addition, aid packages from the King Salman Foundation have also arrived in Kabul and will be distributed to the earthquake victims through the Afghanistan Red Crescent Society (ARCS).
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday reiterated his call for improved relations with Afghanistan but emphasised that the administration in Kabul must rein in Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) first.
While addressing a cabinet meeting on Friday, PM Shehbaz said Afghanistan was Pakistan’s “brotherly neighbour”, and that it was Islamabad’s heartfelt wish to improve relations with Kabul, especially with regards to the economy and trade.
“Unfortunately, the TTP is operating from Afghanistan and carrying out terror attacks and killing innocent people inside Pakistan. This cannot go on,” he said.
“We have conveyed to the Afghan government that we desire good ties with them but TTP should be stopped from killing our innocent people. This is a red line. TTP operating from there against Pakistan is unacceptable.”
The prime minister reiterated his call to the Afghan government to devise a concrete strategy, saying that Pakistan was ready for dialogue.
“But the policy of talks and allowing TTP to operate against Pakistan can’t go simultaneously,” he said.
A Chinese company has expressed interest to invest in building a hydroelectric dam on the Kokcha River in northeastern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Energy and Water said on Thursday.
The ministry said in a statement hat the head of the Chinese company met with Sirajuddin Wahaj, provincial director of energy and water in Takhar, and the technical team of the ministry.
The technical team of the ministry and the provincial director of energy and water in Takhar welcomed the company's interest and promised cooperation in this regard.
At least 20 children have been killed in Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday.
"UNICEF is deeply saddened by reports that at least 20 children have been killed in an attack near the border in eastern Afghanistan. Our sincere condolences to those who have lost loved ones. Children are not and must never be a target," Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF's regional director in South Asia, said.
Pakistan carried out airstrikes on Paktika's Barmal district on Tuesday night. The Islamic Emirate said 46 people were killed in the strikes.
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