After invoking UN norms, PM Imran clarifies call for Afghan help

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan redefined his call to help Afghanistan under the transnational doctrine of Responsibility to Cover (R2P), inviting the transnational community to fulfill its obligation to the Afghan people by furnishing philanthropic backing to the country.

“ One pillar of R2P is to help cover people from mass scale philanthropic extremity left in the wake of a prolonged conflict. Right now millions of Afghan people are in peril of starvation,” he twittered.

This tweet was a follow-up to his earlier call for immediate philanthropic relief for Afghans, fulfilling the obligation under the “ UN principle of R2P”.

The after the tweet was maybe needed by review on electronic and social media of the wording of his appeal, which sounded to negate Pakistan’s foreign policy station regarding the status of Afghanistan and its government.

“ R2P has nothing to do with the current philanthropic situation in Afghanistan. Please take to task who came up with this frivolous and dangerous interpretation of R2P,” former Foreign Office prophet Abdul Basit twittered in response to the high minister.

According to the Global Centre for R2P, this is a transnational norm that “ seeks to ensure that the transnational community noway again fails to halt the mass atrocity crimes of genocide, war crimes, ethnical sanctification and crimes against humanity.”

The conception surfaced in response to “ the failure of the transnational community to adequately respond to mass atrocities committed in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s”.

These preconditions were refocused out by critic Mosharraf Zaidi, who twittered “ Unless someone is arguing that one or further of these conditions is currently in Afghanistan, there’s no R2P.”

It’s worth noting that PM Khan has supported the need for the transnational community to engage with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, saying this is the only way to ensure the protection of the people of the war-torn country.

Recalling Pakistan’s principled station on the issue of R2P, legal expert Feisal Naqvi refocused out that Pakistan was opposed to the “ constructivist conception of R2P because it’s frequently incorrectly used by stronger countries to intermediate. For illustration, India used R2P to justify its 1971 irruption of also East Pakistan,” he twittered.

Dawn reached out to National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf to gain the government’s perspective on this issue, but he couldn’t be reached for comment.

In another communication on Sunday, the PM participated the hashtag#SaveAfghanLives, twittering “ I’ll add my voice also and want people to join a transnational action to raise mindfulness about the philanthropic extremity unfolding in Afghanistan, putting at threat of starvation millions of Afghans, especially children.”