Pakistan army is continuing a relief operation to rescue those affected in the aftermath of a powerful earthquake that killed more than 300 people on Monday.
According to a statement issued by the ISPR, the helicopter operation has been started to rescue people injured in earthquake.
DG ISPR Lt General Asim Saleem Bajwa said that the army has taken a lead role in responding to the crisis, with extra resources pushed out to its various hospitals in the affected region.
The DG ISPR said that that an aircraft has been dispatched for Chitral with 7 tons ration, 2500 ready meals, additional medical teams, 1000 tents and blankets which will be distributed in remote areas.
By mid-morning the army said its Frontier Works Organization had cleared 45 landslides that had blocked the Karakorum highway, the strategically valued road link to China that winds through some of the world’s most forbidding mountain terrain.
Small aftershocks that continued to shake the region have not done any further damage, but schools in the city of Rawalpindi were kept shut as a precautionary measure.
