During a meeting with a delegation of tent manufacturers in Lahore on Saturday, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that Pakistan will be sending over 170,000 tents to Turkey for the victims of the recent earthquake.
The Prime Minister appealed to the manufacturers to provide these tents to the government at a low cost to help the victims of the disaster. To ensure the quality of the tents, a committee has been established under the chair of the Planning Minister.
The Prime Minister was informed that 21,000 winterised tents will be dispatched to Turkey via air and land routes in the first week of the next month. He was further told that Pakistan has sufficient capacity to manufacture tents for the earthquake victims of Turkey, and the NDMA (National Disaster Management Authority) is in full communication with the Pakistan Tents Manufacturers Association on this matter.
In addition to the tents, food, warm clothes, and dry milk are also being sent to the earthquake-affected individuals in Syria. Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal, Minister of State Ayesha Ghaus Pasha, Chairman NDMA Lt. Gen. Inam Haider Malik, and others were also present at the meeting.
