NATO airlifts for Pakistan quake relief:

..."Although UNHCR worked closely with non-combatant NATO forces in Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia during the Kosovo crisis, this is the first time the UN refugee agency and NATO have mounted a joint airlift of this size," UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond said at the agency's headquarters in Geneva.

Dozens of sorties by NATO aircraft will probably be required to move all of the supplies, which are being transferred from Iskenderun to Incirlik by Turkish-provided trucks and troops...

The UN's Jan Egelund warns that 10,000 displaced Pakistani children face death if relief doesn't reach them in the coming days.

Posted by Laura at October 20, 2005 11:04 AM