Summary National and provincial disaster management authorities have sent tents, blankets and food items.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk / AP) – The National Disaster Management Authority has released two thousand tents for the quake affected people of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa today (Tuesday).
According to state radio, the NDMA has also sent two thousand blankets and two thousand floor mats for the victims.
Meanwhile, Punjab Disaster Management Authority dispatched relief goods for the earthquake victims of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
According to a spokesman of PDMA, these relief goods include ten thousand tents, ten thousand food items, ten thousand blankets and five-truck loaded with five hundred twenty-kg flour bags.
He said that one mobile hospital and three medical teams alongwith 150 Rescue 1122 officials are also being sent to the quake-hit areas of KPK.
The provincial government has announced Rs 300,000 compensation for the heirs of each victims, whereas, Punjab Chief Minister has also announced Rs 500,000 for each victim.
The injured persons will be given Rs 50,000 each.
Addressing a press conference on Monday, Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid said that Pakistan will not issue any appeals to the international community for help as the country has the required resources to carry out the rescue and relief work.
"We have enough resources to handle the situation. Our top priority is to help those affected because of the earthquake," the minister said.
A government official Amir Afaq said that civil and military authorities had reached the remote, impoverished areas in the country s northwest to help the quake victims.
"We are transporting tents, medicines and other items to quake-hit areas," he said. The quake damaged nearly 2,000 homes in the area, he said.
RESCUE AND RELIEF OPERATIONS
Authorities in Pakistan have intensified rescue and relief operations Tuesday in rugged, earthquake-affected areas as the death toll crossed 200.
Monday s 7.5-magnitude quake was centered deep beneath the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan s sparsely populated Badakhshan province, which borders Pakistan, Tajikistan and China, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Pakistan was hit by a 7.6-magnitude earthquake of Oct. 8, 2005, that killed more than 80,000 people and left more than 3 million homeless, most in the northwest of the country and in the divided region of Kashmir.
That quake was much shallower than Monday s — 10 kilometers (6 miles) below the surface, compared with 213 kilometers (130 miles) — and thus caused greater damage, said Mohammad Hanif, an official at the Meteorological Department.
