Taliban's spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid announced the decree that aims to solve "obscene acts".
In a ceremony held in Amritsar, foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla along with Afghan ambassador Farid Mamundzay and World Food Program Country director Bishaw Parajuli flagged off the first convoy of 50 trucks carrying the consignment.
The confirmed death toll from the deadliest quake in the region in two decades stood at more than 24,000 across southern Turkey and northwest Syria four days after it hit.
Citing rising threats and attacks on humanitarian operations, the UN World Food Program has suspended its aid operations in southern Somalia leaving millions of people without aid.
India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador T S Tirumurti said India remains on the side of peace.
'Inequality has been growing in the world. The virus has only amplified it.'
A spokesman from Libya's Red Crescent said that 85 bodies were detected near Libya's capital of Tripoli while another 10 bodies were found near the coastal city of Sabartha.
'I am sceptical of the Indian economy returning to a sustained high-growth trajectory any time soon'
About one-third of the world's poor live in India but there are countries where 88 per cent of population is extremely poor.
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