Islamabad, June 26: Pakistan sent its first relief flight packed with medicine and surgical equipment worth USD 3.3 million to Iraq, a foreign ministry statement said today. The Pakistan Air Force plane took the supplies yesterday. A second aircraft will deliver 9,000 tons of rice, said the statement. It didn't say when the rice would be shipped.

"We could not send relief aid to Iraq earlier because of logistical problems," foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan said.

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