By Imran Nasir

ISLAMABAD (TSAT) - Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday has launched a campaign on social media to help Afghan people facing freezing weather that put their lives in risk.

Khan wrote on Twitter, that he will add his voice to help the millions Afghan people who are facing starvation.

“I will add my voice also and want people to join an international initiative to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Afghanistan, putting at risk of starvation millions of Afghans, especially children.  #SaveAfghanLives,” Khan tweeted.

On Saturday, Khan urged the world community to come forward and help Afghan people as it's their responsibility under the UN principle of Responsibility To Protect also know as R2P to save them.

“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,” Khan said.

He added that right now millions of Afghans people lives in danger because of starvation and its responsibility of international community to save them under the R2P.

Earlier, this month, the United Nations warned that humanitarian crisis growing in the war-torn country and nearly 23 million Afghan people need urgent humanitarian assistance as they are facing food shortage and cashless.

Following August 15, last year when Taliban entered in Kabul and US troops lift the country after 20 year long-conflict, Washington imposed sanctions on Afghanistan and frozen its nearly $10 billion funds.

The move pushed the new Taliban government into trouble and huge economic crisis emerged in the country.

Currently, million Afghan lost their jobs as the country economy collapsed and well-off people lift the country.