Pakistan decides to assist Ukrainian citizens during the war

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will send humanitarian aid to Ukraine as a show of sympathy with the country's beleaguered people, in what appears to be a delicate balancing act.

An emergency summation was circulated by the federal cabinet to provide roughly Rs60 million and two planes to send aid commodities to Poland. An informed source said that a decision was made to deliver humanitarian supplies and a list of urgently-needed products to Ukraine at the request of the Ukrainian embassy in Islamabad.

Proposals for humanitarian aid to Ukraine from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan (MOFA), were also enthusiastically supported, with a recommendation that Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) mobilise non-military aid sought by the Ukrainian embassy and arrange its transit.

At the MOFA's request, the prime minister was given an official summary requesting that humanitarian aid be sent to Ukraine immediately. After consulting with the NDMA, the MOFA advised that the NDMA send assistance supplies to Ukraine as a sign of support for the country's people during this time of crisis.

In addition to this, there are a hundred tents, five hundred blankets, and five hundred sleeping bags, as well as thirty 3.5-kV generators, 2,500 soap bars, and 995 bottles of hand soap. C-130 aircraft would fly a special cargo mission right away to deliver these things.