New Delhi: Pakistan has rejected an Indian proposal to move 50,000 metric tonnes of wheat from the Wagah border into Indian or Afghan trucks as a humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. Pakistani officials say New Delhi was pulling its hand by suggesting 'impossible' options.

Official sources told the media that India was deliberately spreading "misinformation" about Pakistani modus operandi for moving humanitarian aid from the Wagah border. Pakistan proposed that trucks under the banner of the United Nations (UN) World Food Program (WFP) should transport wheat and other essential commodities from India to Afghanistan. A senior official of the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, on the condition of anonymity, said that Pakistan has already spoken to the WFP and the UN agency is ready to execute this plan.

The official says Pakistani practices should not be viewed as conditions. He said these were to facilitate India's humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan. India has made a separate proposal suggesting that wheat should be transported to Afghanistan in Indian or Pakistani trucks. India's proposal was rejected by a Pakistani official saying that this option is not possible.

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