Indian aircraft overflies Pakistan with relief for Iran

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Indian aircraft overflies Pakistan with relief for Iran

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After a gap of two years, an Indian aircraft overflew Pakistan Tuesday carrying 25 tones of relief supplies, including a mobile hospital, tents and medicines for the people in and around quake-devastated Bam in Iran where over 25,000 people have been killed.

The IAF (Indian Airline Flight) IL-76 aircraft left here at 12:30 pm with five doctors and 60 paramedics on board for Tehran, on way to Bam, according to IAF spokesman Squadron Leader Mahesh Upasani.

Two more planeloads of relief supplies would be ferried, officials said and the assistance would include 10,000 blankets, 1000 tents, a full complement of doctors to set up a 75-bed mobilehospital along with an operation theater and medical supplies for four weeks.

Separately, 600 tones of high protein biscuits which have reached Bandar Abbas will be dispatched to Bam, to meet the emergency requirements.

Air links between India and Pakistan were snapped on January one, 2002 in the wake of December 13, 2001, terror attack on Indian Parliament. The two sides have agreed to restore these links from January one, 2004.

The overflight of the IAF IL-76 relief missions has been permitted as a special gesture by Pakistan.

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