{"id":192270,"date":"2022-06-24T20:39:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T15:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=192270"},"modified":"2022-06-24T20:40:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T15:10:45","slug":"help-afghans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/help-afghans-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Afghans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Recently, Afghanistan has faced a severe earthquake, which is supposed to have killed around 1,000-plus people in initial estimates.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the major problems that are being faced in Afghanistan?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Before Earthquake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan is already in the midst of a humanitarian crisis since Taliban\u2019s takeover last year,<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Since Earthquake<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The earthquake has put Afghanistan on the brink of an even <strong>bigger disaster<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It is facing the problem of inadequate rescue efforts, and shortage of food and medicines in the area.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Why should India come forward?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Afghanistan needs a massive aid effort. India can be one of the countries which can afford to help. Further, Taliban has asked for help.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the challenges in giving aid to Afghanistan?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s <strong>disaster management system <\/strong>is very poor since pre-Taliban government. For example, inadequate aircraft and helicopters available to rescuers, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-Taliban government was involved in corruption. According to <strong>the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction<\/strong>, nearly $19 billion was eaten up by \u201cfraud, wastage and abuse\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan healthcare system is near collapse because foreign staff of humanitarian organisations that were operating in Afghanistan have left the country due to security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>It is <strong>dangerous<\/strong> for the Indian government to send a <strong>rescue and aid team<\/strong> to Afghanistan because the <strong>quake-hit region borders<\/strong> Pakistan and the Indian <strong>team<\/strong> can be attacked by <strong>Pakistan-backed militant groups<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Way Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi\u2019s best option is to be very generous but work through the UN.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article \u201c<strong>Help Afghans<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>the Times of India<\/strong> on <strong>24<sup>th<\/sup> June 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, Afghanistan has faced a severe earthquake, which is supposed to have killed around 1,000-plus people in initial estimates. What are the major problems that are being faced in Afghanistan? Before Earthquake Afghanistan is already in the midst of a humanitarian crisis since Taliban\u2019s takeover last year, Since Earthquake The earthquake has put Afghanistan&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/help-afghans-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Help Afghans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-192270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}