无论是20世纪80年代前苏联对阿富汗的占领,还是2001-2021的美国战争,阿富汗在近40年的时间里一直处于战争和动荡之中。不仅阿富汗被彻底摧毁,而且影响了整个地区,特别是巴基斯坦。巴基斯坦是20世纪60年代和70年代增长最快的经济体之一,但随着20世纪80年代阿富汗战争的爆发,巴基斯坦的经济开始逐年恶化。巴基斯坦不仅牺牲了大约8万条宝贵的生命,而且估计造成了大约2500亿美元的经济损失。极端主义、恐怖主义、毒品文化和枪支文化是阿富汗战争的另一份礼物。
自美国从阿富汗撤军并于2021 8月15日被塔利班接管以来,和平与稳定似乎有了希望。它使阿富汗受益匪浅,但也显示了整个区域的积极发展。区域发展和繁荣与阿富汗的和平与稳定息息相关。
巴基斯坦全力以赴与阿富汗人民站在一起,促进他们的经济和福祉。在这方面,巴基斯坦和阿富汗很可能同意发展一条多式联运的空路走廊,这将大大促进两国的经济发展。巴基斯坦强调需要向阿富汗人民提供紧急国际人道主义援助,同时重申支持建设一个和平、统一、稳定和繁荣的阿富汗。巴中计划将CPEC扩展到阿富汗,这证明了巴基斯坦对和平、稳定、繁荣和互联的阿富汗的坚定承诺。
自2021年 9月以来,根据巴基斯坦-阿富汗合作论坛的安排,已通过694辆卡车和4架C130飞机向阿富汗运送了超过14945吨的人道主义援助。阿富汗最近发生地震后,巴基斯坦开放了南瓦济里斯坦边境,并建立了一个临时医疗设施。来自巴基斯坦的救济援助包括食品、衣服、毯子、药品等。长期以来,巴基斯坦一直在通过修建医院、学校和道路来支持饱受战争蹂躏的邻国的重建,以帮助改善阿富汗人民的生活,迄今为止,巴基斯坦对阿富汗的发展援助已达到10亿美元。2019年,作为巴基斯坦对重建和发展努力贡献的一部分,阿富汗第二大医院——真纳医院(Jinnah hospital)以2400多万美元的成本在喀布尔开业,这是一家拥有200张床位的先进医疗设施。
最近,巴基斯坦提出为阿富汗学生提供在线教育设施——阿拉马·伊克巴尔开放大学(AIOU)和虚拟大学(VU)将通过他们的电视网络教授学生。
2020年,该国高等教育委员会(HEC)宣布了约3000个奖学金,价值15亿卢比,供在巴基斯坦不同学院学习的阿富汗学生使用,包括医学、工程、农业、管理和计算机科学
巴基斯坦为重振双边经济关系作出了堪称典范的努力,通过在不同领域的合作和频繁的商业代表团交流,促进贸易和投资。
在重建和重建阿富汗的努力中,巴基斯坦从未作为传统的捐助国行事,2021塔利班接管阿富汗之前,巴基斯坦40年来收容了300万阿富汗难民,并为阿富汗和平进程提供了便利,这一点显而易见。
巴基斯坦利用其有限的资源,提供5亿美元,用于包括教育和卫生在内的各个部门的能力建设,以及建设阿富汗的学校、医院、道路等通信基础设施。巴基斯坦双边援助方案下的一些已完成项目如下:-
道路和运输部门
o Torkham-Jalalabad公路75公里。
o托尔哈姆-贾拉拉巴德公路的额外运输通道。
o贾拉拉巴德的3条内部道路。
o贾拉拉巴德市的交通信号。
o提供道路施工机械。
o为瓦尔达克省提供30台移动式热混合器、发电机和药品。
o 200辆卡车和100辆公共交通巴士。
教育部门
o拉赫曼·巴巴学校和旅馆,喀布尔,费用为1.2亿卢比。
o Balkh大学Liaquat Ali Khan工程学院大楼,费用为10460亿卢比。
o喀布尔大学阿拉玛·伊克巴尔文学院,费用为6.7254亿卢比。
o楠格哈尔大学科学院赛义德爵士研究生院,费用为3.8965亿卢比。
o喀布尔和巴格兰的6所小学和2所职业培训机构。
o开往喀布尔和楠格哈尔本科的10辆公共汽车。
o为18个省提供30万套教材。
o 2000个巴基斯坦高等教育全额资助奖学金。
o在巴基斯坦学校注册的50万难民学生。
o培训了644名阿富汗警察和药物管制官员、医生和辅助医疗人员、外交官、司法官员、海关官员、农场主和银行家。
卫生部门
o贾拉拉巴德Nishtar肾脏中心,耗资700万美元。
o喀布尔有400张床位的Jinnah医院,费用为1185.4万美元。
o洛加尔的Naeb Aminullah Khan医院,费用为2000万美元。
o 12个省的45辆救护车。
o 14个装备齐全的流动医疗单位,费用为580.2亿卢比。
o喀布尔、贾拉拉巴德和坎大哈的药品。
o免费眼营地(仍在继续)。
o仅在2008年,一个巴基斯坦慈善组织就为阿富汗患者进行了30000多次免费眼科手术。
一般援助包括为坎大哈提供电视发射机、喀布尔和白沙瓦之间的数字无线电连接、安全设备和计算机、在喀布尔村庄安装15台深井手动泵,以及修复喀布尔动物园和Deh Mazang公园。
希望国际社会也能本着同样的精神,在紧急情况下向阿富汗提供急需的人道主义援助。特别是发达国家应该慷慨援助阿富汗。
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Zamir Awan,泽米尔阿万,笔名:巴铁泽米尔。
现任巴基斯坦国立科技大学中国研究中心副主任。巴基斯坦驻中国大使馆原科技参赞。
泽米尔生于1962年3月1日,80年代在中国留过学。在上海大学获得学士与硕士学位,机械专业。
从2010年,在巴基斯坦驻华大使馆,担任参赞,负责中巴两国之间科技交流与发展科技合作。中巴两国政治关系非常密切,通称“铁哥们儿全天候战略合作伙伴”的关系。科技算战略地位,所以两国也重视科技交流与合作。
泽米尔阿万,利用他在中国学习时学过的知识(包括农业、林业、生物学、健康业、工业、水电、能源、高等教育等等)加强了合作关系。签订了不少合同与协议,推动了不少项目。
他为巴中两国人民之间的友谊做了不少的工作,特别一带一路与巴中经济走廊方面。在他的任期中,在两国关系发展壮大。
从2020年起成为《中国红色国学文化网》时事评论员。
Afghanistan deserves humanitarian assistance generously
Food and blankets are handed out to people in need in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, by WFP/Arete
Whether it was the former USSR’s occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s or the US war from 2001-2021, Afghanistan was under war and unrest for almost four decades. Not only Afghanistan was destroyed completely but has affected the whole region, especially Pakistan. Pakistan was one of the fastest growing economies in the 1960s, and 1970s, but with the start of the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, Pakistan’s economy started deteriorating consecutively on yearly basis. Pakistan has not only sacrificed around 80,000 precious human lives but also an estimated economic loss of around US Dollars 250 Billion. Extremism, Terrorism, Drug culture, and Gun Culture was an additional gift of the Afghan war.
Since the US withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan and being overtaken by the Taliban on 15 August 2021, there appears hope for peace and stability. It has benefited Afghanistan immensely but also has shown positive developments in the whole region. Regional developments and prosperity are linked to peace and stability in Afghanistan.
Pakistan is all out to stand with the people of Afghanistan to boost their economy and well-being. In this context, Pakistan and Afghanistan are likely to agree on the development of a multimodal Air-to-Road Corridor, which will contribute significantly to the economic development of both countries. Pakistan underscored the need for urgent international humanitarian assistance for the Afghan people while reiterating its support for a peaceful, united, stable, and prosperous Afghanistan. Pakistan-China’s plan to extend CPEC to Afghanistan is proof of Pakistan’s firm commitment to a peaceful, stable, prosperous, and connected Afghanistan.
Since September 2021, over 14945 Tons of humanitarian assistance have been sent to Afghanistan via 694 trucks and four C130 planes under arrangements of the Pak-Afghan Cooperation Forum (PACF). In the wake of the recent earthquake in Afghanistan, Pakistan has opened its border in South Waziristan and established a makeshift medical facility. Relief aids from Pakistan include food, clothing, blankets, medicines, etc. For ages, Pakistan is supporting reconstruction in the war-ravaged neighboring country by building hospitals, schools, and roads to help improve the lives of the Afghan people and its development assistance to Afghanistan has reached US $1 billion so far. In 2019, Afghanistan’s second-largest hospital, Jinnah Hospital, which is a 200-bed, state-of-the-art medical facility in Kabul, was opened at a cost of more than $24 million as part of Pakistan’s contribution to reconstruction and development efforts.
Recently, Pakistan has offered to provide online education facilities for Afghan students – Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) and Virtual University (VU) will teach students through their TV network.
In 2020, the country’s Higher Education Commission (HEC) announced around 3,000 scholarships worth Rs. 1.5 billion Afghan students studying in different institutes of Pakistan in various fields, including medicine, engineering, agriculture, management, and computer science.
Pakistan has made exemplary efforts to reinvigorate bilateral economic relations to boost trade and investment through cooperation in diverse areas and frequent exchange of business delegations.
In a bid to reconstruct and rebuild Afghanistan, Pakistan has never acted as a traditional donor country which is evident from its four decades of hosting 3 million Afghan refugees and facilitation of the Afghan peace process prior to the Taliban takeover in August 2021.
From its limited resources, Pakistan is providing US $500 million for capacity building in various sectors including education, and health as well as building schools, hospitals, roads, etc. communications infrastructures of Afghanistan. A few completed projects under Pakistan’s Bilateral Assistance Program are as under:-
Roads & Transportation Sector
o 75 Km Torkham – Jalalabad Road.
o Additional carriage Wayat Torkham – Jalalabad Road.
o 3 internal roads in Jalalabad.
o Traffic signals in Jalalabad city.
o Provision of road construction machinery.
o 30 Mobile hot mixers, generators, and medicines for Wardak Province.
o 200 Trucks & 100 Public transport buses.
Education Sector
o Rehman Baba School and Hostel, Kabul at cost of Rs: 120 million.
o Liaquat Ali Khan Engineering Faculty Block, Balkh University at cost of Rs: 1046 billion.
o Allama Iqbal faculty of Arts, Kabul University at cost of Rs: 672.54 million.
o Sir Syed Post-graduate faculty of sciences, Nangarhar University at cost of Rs: 389.65 million.
o 6 primary schools and 2 Vocational Training Institutes in Kabul and Baghlan.
o 10 Buses for Kabul and Nangarhar Universities.
o 300,000 School Kits for 18 provinces.
o 2000 fully funded scholarships for higher education in Pakistan.
o 500,000 refugee students enrolled in schools in Pakistan.
o Trained 644 Afghan police and drug control officers, doctors and paramedical staff, diplomats, judicial officers, customs officers, agriculturists, and bankers. `
Health Sector
o Nishtar Kidney Centre, Jalalabad at a cost of USD 7 million.
o 400 Bed Jinnah Hospital, Kabul at a cost of USD118.854 million.
o Naeb Aminullah Khan Hospital, Logar at a cost of USD 20 million.
o 45 Ambulances for 12 provinces.
o 14 fully equipped mobile medical units at a cost of Rs 58020 million.
o Medicines for Kabul, Jalalabad and Kandahar.
o Free Eye Camps (still continued).
o A single philanthropic Pakistani organization performed over 30,000 free eye surgeries on Afghan patients in 2008 alone.
General Assistance included the provision of TV transmitters for Kandahar, a Digital Radio Link between Kabul and Peshawar, security equipment and computers, installation of 15 deep well hand pumps in villages of Kabul, and rehabilitation of Kabul Zoo and Deh Mazang Park.
It is desired that the International Community may also follow the same spirit and extend the much-needed humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan on emergency bases. Especially the developed nations should generously assist Afghanistan.
Reference Link:- http://www.hongseguoxue.com/show.asp?id=879
Reference Link:- https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/08/19/afghanistan-deserves-humanitarian-assistance-generously/