Dubai (dpa) - Saudi Arabia has pledged 133 million dollars to help Pakistan rebuild infrastructure destroyed in last week's devastating earthquake, the Saudi Press Agency SPA reported Saturday.
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz had issued directives to extend the aid to Pakistan, said a statement by the Royal Court quoted by SPA. The amount would be used to rebuild schools, hospitals and roads.
Saudi's ambassador to Pakistan Ali Awadh Asseri announced in Islamabad that the current number of ten daily flights with relief material would also be stepped up.
He added his government had also dispatched a state-of-the-art field hospital to the worst-hit Mansehra town in Northwestern Frontier Province (NWFP).
"This hospital will be operational in the next couple of days,'' Asseri added. dpa ap emc
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