Pakistan braced for more floods, aid tops $800m

SHADADKOT: More than $800 million has been donated or pledged to help Pakistan’s flood victims, the foreign minister said on Sunday, as hundreds of thousands of people in the south feared more destruction.

Rising waters in Sindh province threatened to wreak havoc in U.S. ally Pakistan in a catastrophe that has made the government more unpopular and may help militants gain supporters.

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi expressed gratitude for the $815.58 million in international assistance to ease the suffering from one of the worst disasters in Pakistan’s history.

“In such a situation, when the West and Europe and America are in recession and donor fatigue is being discussed, this kind of solidarity for Pakistan, I think, is very encouraging,” he told a news conference in Islamabad. The U.N. had appealed for $459 million in initial response

NATO aircraft reaches flood-hit areas

ISLAMABAD: The first NATO cargo aircraft carrying relief goods for survivors of the devastating floods in Pakistan on Sunday arrived at the military Chaklala Airbase.

In response to a request by the government of Pakistan, the NATO had on Friday decided to provide airlift and sealift for the delivery of aid to Pakistan floods survivors.

The NATO yesterday started to airlift about 500 tonnes of relief supplies from Europe to Pakistan, where about eight million are in need of emergency aid.

A Trainer Cargo Aircraft of the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force transported relief goods donated by the Republic of Slovakia and will conduct a humanitarian relief mission to Pakistan in support of the flood humanitarian efforts in that country.

Maurits Jochems, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Operations, said the alliance’s airlift of

PAF Gets Latest SAB-2000 Aircraft

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan News: Pakistan Air Force received Sweden Saab-2000 aircraft today.
The ceremony was attended by Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman as chief guest at Kamra Airbase.
With the induction of this aircraft, Pakistan has become one of the few air forces in the world to have Airborne Early Warning capability.
Besides detecting high- and medium-altitude aircraft, this state-of-the-art system is also capable of detecting low-level flying objects over land and sea at extended ranges. The system is capable of picking even the surface targets over the sea.

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PAF Gets Latest SAB-2000 Aircraft was first posted on December 29, 2009 at 3:16 pm.