Pakistan is now all set to host the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Sunday, December 19 that will be focused on Afghanistan.

Not only foreign ministers of the 57 member states but the US, UK, Russia, China, UN, EU, the World Bank, and other humanitarian organizations have also been invited to the extraordinary session.

The acting foreign minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Amir Khan Motaqi has also arrived in Islamabad and met with his Pakistani counterpart and other Pakistani officials on Saturday, December 18.

This is the biggest international gathering that is being convened merely on Afghanistan after the Taliban recaptured power in mid-August.

The 17th extraordinary session of OIC is intended to address the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and to avert an economic collapse of the country as over half of the population of Afghanistan is starving.

Speaking to a press conference, Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that he is optimistic about the international consensus on Afghanistan’s situation.

He added that the objective behind hosting the meeting was to attract the world to the food shortage, the plight of children, and financial difficulties in Afghanistan and that the situation altogether will not only impact the immediate neighbors of Afghanistan but also the world in the form of mass immigration.