Pakistan among other countries affected by sanctions on Russia: FO.

ISLAMABAD -- Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar said on Friday that sanctions on Russia have affected many developing countries including Pakistan.

Addressing weekly press briefing in Islamabad on Friday, he said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif spoke with his Afghan counterpart Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund over telephone and offered condolences over the deaths and prayed for speedy recovery of the injured in the earthquake in Paktika province and its adjoining areas and the floods in different provinces across the country.

The spokesperson said that the truck-loads of relief goods had been sent to Afghanistan on the directives of the Prime Minister and the government and people of Pakistan were ready to extend all possible cooperation to alleviate the suffering of their Afghan brothers in this difficult time.

Iftikhar further said that Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, in his virtual address to the first meeting of the Group of Friends over...