A Pakistani aircraft loaded with 1,200 tents landed in Adana province as a part of Pakistan’s particular cargo flight operation to move 50,000 tents.
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A brand new Pakistani cargo aircraft carrying 90 tonnes of aid items, together with 1,200 winterised, fire-resistant tents, has arrived in quake-hit Türkiye.
According to a press release from the Pakistani Embassy in Ankara, the aid support with a solidarity message for Turkish folks landed within the southern Adana province on Saturday.
Khawaja Ahmad Hassan, Pakistani prime minister’s particular assistant who accompanied the help, informed reporters that Islamabad and Ankara are like “two hearts, one soul.”
“People of Pakistan felt the same pain and anguish as their Turkish brothers and sisters and are determined to extend every support till full recovery and rehabilitation. Keeping up with the glorious history of supporting each other under all circumstances, the Prime Minister is monitoring the earthquake relief assistance from Pakistan himself,” he added.
“Under the directions of the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, earthquake relief supplies mainly winterised tents are being transported to brotherly Türkiye through air, land and sea routes,” the assertion learn.
“The relief operations will continue from Pakistan till the complete rehabilitation of the earthquake victims.”
Special cargo operation
Sharif was among the many first leaders to go to the affected area to specific solidarity with the earthquake survivors.
It was the second support flight despatched to Türkiye for earthquake victims over the previous 48 hours, Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority stated in a press release earlier on Sunday.
On Saturday, one other cargo aircraft carrying 90 tonnes of aid items arrived in Adana.
“Both flights are a part of a particular air bridge operation which is able to fly greater than 34 chartered cargo plane for dispatching tents to Türkiye,” the statement added.
A second ship of the Pakistan Navy departed on Saturday with 500 tonnes of relief supplies.
Pakistan last week announced that it would send 50,000 winterised tents for earthquake victims in Türkiye by March 23.
The ship, PNS Moawin, which departed from Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, is carrying 2,600 winterised tents and 38,000 blankets for Türkiye and 22,000 blankets, ration packets, and generators for Syria.
More than 47,900 people were killed in Türkiye in the quakes that struck on February 6, according to official figures.
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Source: AA
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