India today handed over 10,000 tonnes of nutritious high-protein biscuits to Afghanistan for one million school children as part of its food aid and also decided to give an additional 124 buses for assisting the public transport system in the war-ravaged country. The first cartons of the biscuits being given through the World Food Programme were handed over to visiting Afghan Education Minister Yonous Qanooni at a function here by External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha. India has announced food aid of one million tonnes of wheat and a $ 100 million grant for the ongoing rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan.
When I was a kid, my mother always made us clean our plates. If we didn't want to, she'd harp on the starving children in India. Maybe thirty or forty years from now, a prosperous Afghanistan will be kicking in for the starving children of someplace or other. |