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BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- China has decided to
offer emergency aid worth 6.2 million US dollars to Pakistan, which was rocked
by a 7.6-magnitude quake Saturday morning together with India and Afghanistan,
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said on Sunday.
The Chinese government sent a 49-member international
rescue team Sunday morning to the quake-hit areas in Pakistan to issue
humanitarian aid, Kong said.
The team took eight tons of specialized rescue and
research equipment and nine tons of goods for disaster relief, according to
sources with the China Seismological Bureau.
It is the fourth time that China has provided aid to
the quake-hit countries. It also helped Algeria and Iran in 2003 and in the
Indonesian tsunami last year.
In the wake of the deadly quake, Chinese leaders,
including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, and Foreign Minister Li
Zhaoxing sent their messages of sympathy and cordial regards, respectively, to
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Foreign
Minister Khurshid Kasuri, and Indian President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and Foreign Minister Natwar Singh.
Chinese ambassador to Afghanistan has also conveyed
Li Zhaoxing's sympathy to Afghan Foreign Minister over the quake.
One Chinese working in local Chinese organization
died and fourothers got injured in the deadly quake which has reportedly killed
more than 18,500 people. Enditem | 
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