{"id":8285,"date":"2022-02-07T11:58:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T11:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=8285"},"modified":"2022-02-07T11:58:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T11:58:35","slug":"pakistani-chinese-leaders-discuss-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/02\/pakistani-chinese-leaders-discuss-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani, Chinese leaders discuss Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211;\u00a0Chinese President Xi Jinping Sunday held wide-ranging bilateral talks with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in which they stressed the urgency of providing enhanced international aid to Afghanistan to help it avert a looming humanitarian crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The meeting marked the culmination of a four-day visit to Beijing, where Khan was among foreign leaders invited to witness Friday\u2019s opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>A post-meeting joint statement said that China and Pakistan \u201ccalled upon the international community to provide continued and enhanced assistance and support to Afghanistan including through unfreezing of Afghanistan\u2019s financial assets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two sides are ready to discuss with Afghanistan the extension of CPEC to Afghanistan,\u201d the statement said, referring to a multi-billion-dollar investment program known as the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.<\/p>\n<p>CPEC is hailed as a flagship of Beijing\u2019s global Belt and Road Initiative, which builds roads, power plants and other infrastructure projects in Pakistan with Chinese investments, reported the VOA.<\/p>\n<p>When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan last August, wide-ranging international sanctions dating back to the Islamist group\u2019s first time in power from 1996 to 2001 followed.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban\u2019s return to power prompted the United States and other Western nations to immediately freeze more than $9.5 billion in Afghan central bank\u2019s assets, mostly held in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions have pushed the heavily aid-dependent Afghan economy to the brink of collapse and exacerbated a simmering humanitarian crisis in the conflict-torn South Asian nation, where the United Nations estimates around 24 million people, or more than half of the population, face acute hunger.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211;\u00a0Chinese President Xi Jinping Sunday held wide-ranging bilateral talks with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in which they stressed the urgency of providing enhanced international aid to Afghanistan to help it avert a looming humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,18,194,200,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,177,187,596],"class_list":["post-8285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soceity","category-security_","category-peace","category-world","category-democracy-human-rights","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-pakistan","tag-us","tag-china"],"views":456,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}