ISLAMABAD, Jun 22 (TNS): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday expressed grief over the loss of lives due to the earthquake in Afghanistan and vowed to provide relief assistance to the affected people.<\/p>\n
He said Pakistan would provide all possible assistance to the people of Afghanistan.\u201dWe are with our Afghan brothers and sisters in this difficult time,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n
Shehbaz said he had issued directives to the Pakistani authorities concerned to provide necessary relief assistance to the government of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the damage caused by the earthquake, especially in the Paktika region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The prime minister prayed for those who lost their lives and expressed sympathy with the affected families.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the damage caused by the earthquake, especially in the Paktika region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The prime minister prayed for those who lost their lives and expressed sympathy with the affected families.<\/p>\n
The Foreign Office in a statement said the government and people of Pakistan extended deepest condolences and sympathies over the loss of precious lives and damage to property caused by the tragic earthquake in Paktika province of Afghanistan and its adjoining areas, and torrential floods in various provinces across the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people of Pakistan stand in strong solidarity with their Afghan brethren in this difficult time. We have no doubt that the brotherly Afghan people will overcome the effects of this natural calamity with their characteristic resilience,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
The FO said, \u201cOur authorities and institutions are working to extend required assistance to Afghanistan in coordination with their relevant institutions\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD, Jun 22 (TNS): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday expressed grief over the loss of lives due to the earthquake in Afghanistan and vowed to provide relief assistance to the affected people. He said Pakistan would provide all possible assistance to the people of Afghanistan.\u201dWe are with our Afghan brothers and sisters in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106045,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106043\/revisions\/106045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}