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Pakistan

Pakistan to make and send high-quality, fireproof tents to Turkiye: PM Shehbaz

  • PM will hold meetings with tent manufacturers to create concrete plan for rapid manufacturing of high quality tents to be sent to Turkiye through aircrafts, road transport and by sea
Published February 17, 2023

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said he will engage tent manufacturers in Pakistan to produce high-quality, fireproof tents to be sent to earthquake-affected victims in Turkiye.

Speaking to the media while on visit to the quake-hit nation, the PM said that Pakistan had earlier sent winterised tents and food but “after my meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, we will now amend the strategy and Pakistan will only send fire-proof winterised tents”.

“Upon my return to Pakistan later today, I will hold meetings with tent manufacturers to create a concrete plan for rapid manufacturing of high quality tents to be sent to Turkiye through aircrafts, road transport and by sea.”

PM Shehbaz departs for Türkiye to visit earthquake-affected areas

“The chairman of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is here with me and I have tasked him to undertake this vital project,” he added.

PM Shehbaz noted that President Erdogan raised funds from the streets of Istanbul for flood affectees of Pakistan in 2022 while his wife Emine Erdogan donated her bracelet for the welfare of the affected population.

“We will not forget the help extended by Turkiye and we stand ready to help you,” he said.

Miracle rescues as Turkey-Syria quake toll passes 25,000

PM Shehbaz left for Turkiye on Thursday in a gesture of solidarity and support in the wake of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Turkiye and Syria on February 6 and killed thousands, flattened swathes of towns and cities and left hundreds of thousands homeless in the middle of a cold winter.

It was followed in the early afternoon by another large quake, magnitude 7.7.

During his stay in Ankara, the PM met President Erdogan to convey his condolences on behalf of the Pakistani nation.

Minister asks NDMA to expedite relief efforts in Turkiye, Syria

The prime minister also visited earthquake-affected areas in southern Turkiye and interacted with the Pakistani search and rescue teams deployed in the area as well as survivors of the earthquake.

Following the earthquake, the PM had ordered the establishment of a relief fund to support earthquake victims of Turkiye. Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said the cabinet will donate one month’s salary to the fund.

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BK Feb 17, 2023 05:46pm
Dude, what about our own people affected by the floods? It is a very noble gesture to help our brothers in Türkiye but, man, can you also focus a bit on the situation in your own backyard?
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HashBrown® Feb 17, 2023 07:30pm
@BK, I take your point, but however much I despise this current administration this time they're doing the right thing. Just because our infrastructure is too corrupt and incompetent for us to adequately look after our own people, it doesn't mean we can (or should) ignore the plight of an ally, particularly in light of the staggering death toll there. Personally I'm more upset that Syria is being completely ignored, even though the country was hit just as bad and is still recovering from the scars of civil war.
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Hashbrown® Feb 17, 2023 08:27pm
@BK, I totally agree with you like for real.
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TimeToMovveOn Feb 17, 2023 11:18pm
@BK, I have never seen Pakistan react like this to its own citizens.
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Amir Feb 18, 2023 12:03am
An excercise purely for optics!
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Amir Feb 18, 2023 12:03am
@BK, these crooks have nothing upstairs!
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HashBrown® Feb 18, 2023 12:49am
@TimeToMovveOn, "I have never seen Pakistan react like this to its own citizens." Given that you guys get most of your news from bollywood or RSS whatsapp groups, that doesn't surprise me at all. By the way, had your beloved Modi focused on providing proven (ie non-Hindustani) vaccines to his own people back in 2020, rather than exporting millions of substandard (ie Hindustani) vaccines to Africa, perhaps you wouldn't have become a global Covid epicentre and a burden to the rest of the world. At least he made sure his face was on all the delivery boxes...because bad publicity is still publicity, eh?
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