Sunday, 25 April 2021

When did Pakistan and India offer help to each other?

 When did Pakistan and India offer help to each other?

Since the formation of Pakistan and India, the two countries have suffered many times from earthquakes, floods, diseases and other calamities. Being in the same region, sometimes disasters come together. Both countries also accepted aid from other countries of the world in these disasters and also remembered the countries that helped in difficult times. Despite being neighbors, help was offered to each other every time, but there is no example of any country accepting this help. If we look only at the recent events, it is clear that whether it was the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan or the 2010 floods, the catastrophic rains in 2014 or the catastrophic floods in the Indian state of Kerala, on both these occasions the two countries Offered to help each other but the two countries did not respond positively to each other's goodwill.

When floods swept through Pakistan's Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces in 2010, Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna called his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi to offer help. Which was later not accepted by Pakistan. In 2014, when rains caused flooding on both sides of the Line of Control, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered help. In response to the offer, Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam offered help in Indian-administered Kashmir, saying, "We would be happy to help Kashmiris on both sides of the LoC."