LAHORE: Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has urged the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to lead from the front in helping the Afghans facing an uncertain future and a severe economic crunch after the US froze their assets worth $9.5bn since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

“[The] OIC should lead from the front in helping [the] Afghans & set an example,” he said in a post on his Twitter account on Sunday as an extraordinary session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers is going on in Islamabad to discuss the Afghanistan crisis.

He cautioned in the tweet that the developing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan would be the biggest human tragedy of the present times if the world would not act fast to avert the crisis.

TLP: Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan leader Saad Hussain Rizvi has welcomed the OIC meeting and the measures being taken on humanitarian grounds as an unstable and bankrupt Afghanistan would not be good for the world.

In a statement, he called for urgent serious measures to avert the threat of humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan.

PAT: Pakistan Awami Tehreek Secretary General Khurram Nawaz Gandapur has termed the OIC meeting an important and historic occasion, hoping that implementation of the decisions made at this largest forum of the Ummah would not be delayed. He said, in a statement, Afghanistan was kept as a battlefield by the world powers.

Published in Dawn, December 20th, 2021