Islamabad, June 25: Pakistan today sent a plane load of relief goods to Iraq as part of its humanitarian assistance to the war-hit people of the fellow Muslim state, the foreign ministry said. A Pakistani Air Force Boeing aircraft carrying the relief assistance, including medicines and surgical equipment, was seen off at the Islamabad airport by foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, it said.

This was the first consignment of a relief package worth 3.3 million dollars announced by Pakistan Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali for post-war Iraq, the statement said.
"Pakistan is working closely with the international community to provide humanitarian assistance to the brotherly people of Iraq," the statement said, adding that Islamabad had also promised a donation of 9,000 tonnes of rice which would be transported to Baghdad soon.
Bureau Report