Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday urged the international community to provide “immediate humanitarian relief to millions of Afghans on the brink of starvation”.

“There is an urgency for the international community, as well as their obligation under the unanimously adopted UN principle of Responsibility To Protect (R2P), to provide immediate humanitarian relief to millions of Afghans on the brink of starvation,” Prime Minister Khan tweeted.

He shared a foreign media report about former British prime minister Gordon Brown’s letter to the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, calling on her to help raise $4.5bn (£3.3bn) for Afghanistan.