Pakistan sending 2 planeloads of relief supplies to Myanmar

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan plans to send two planeloads of relief supplies to Myanmar on Sunday to help the survivors of Cyclone Nargis.

The Foreign Ministry says the supplies will include tents, mosquito nets and medicines.

The U.N. estimates that 1.5 million to 2 million people have been severely affected by the cyclone, which left more than 60,000 people dead or missing and entire villages submerged in the Irrawaddy delta.

The ruling junta has so far allowed in only material assistance and has rejected the large-scale presence of foreign relief workers who have capabilities that Myanmar lacks to cope with the disaster.

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