Pakistan sends aid to Indian earthquake victims

Pakistan has agreed to send aid to the earthquake victims of India.

Pakistani officials said a C-130 transport plane would leave Rawalpindi with about 13 tons of relief goods consisting of 200 tents and 2,500 blankets.

Two more relief planes are due to be sent in the next couple of days.

The first plane will land in Ahmedabad, the commercial capital of India' Gujarat state, the region hardest hit by the earthquake.

The logistics of the aid were worked out between Vijay Nambiar, the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, and Jehangir Ashraf Qazi, his counterpart in New Delhi.

Pakistan offered help to India soon after the earthquake, but said yesterday that India had turned down the offer. India denied this, saying New Delhi was willing to accept aid from any country.

The two countries have fought three wars since the creation of Pakistan in 1947 after the partition of British colonial India.