Turkey's PM first foreign leader in quake zone

Turkey’s prime minister became the first foreign leader to visit South Asia’s quake zone today, a day after the UN urged the world to do more to help the disaster’s 3.3 million homeless victims before the harsh Himalayan winter threatens their survival.

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who arrived in Pakistan yesterday and pledged one million blankets, tents and food, surveyed the ruins by helicopter before landing in the capital of Pakistan’s part of Kashmir to meet with Turkish relief workers.