KABUL, Oct. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Afghanistan has promised to provide helicopters and humanitarian aid to the quake affected people in neighboring Pakistan.

    "In line with presidential decree, the Ministry of Defense will send four helicopters, 20 doctors and two tons of medicines while the Ministry of Health would dispatch 31 doctors, five nurses and one ton of medicine to Pakistan," said a presidential statement received Monday.

    All the relief teams and consignment will be dispatched to Pakistan today.

    The post-war Afghanistan, recovering from over two decades of devastation, has earlier extended symbolic assistance to Tsunami-hit Indonesia, tremor-affected Iran and hurricane-hit United States.

    The US military in Afghanistan will also send eight army helicopters to boost rescue and logistic operations in Pakistan.

    The 7.6 Richter scale earthquake Saturday morning rocked northern Pakistan and affected neighboring India and Afghanistan, and has so far claimed some 20,000 lives. Enditem