Indian biscuits for Afghans rotting in Pak for 2 yrs

NEW DELHI: Ten thousand tonnes of high-energy biscuits, sent by India at the request of the World Food Programme in June 2002 to Afghanistan as part of a relief package two years ago, has still not crossed the Pak-Afghan border due to Islamabad''s refusal to allow Indian trucks or goods with Indian markings to go to its neighbour, sources said on Sunday.
Pakistan insisted that the consignment should be loaded on to its army trucks for onward shipment to Afghanistan and the biscuit packages would not carry Indian markings, they said. The sources claimed that even UN trucks were being refused permission.