{"id":92714,"date":"2025-12-02T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=92714"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:38:10","slug":"pakistan-dispatches-humanitarian-aid-to-sri-lanka-via-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-dispatches-humanitarian-aid-to-sri-lanka-via-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan dispatches humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka via sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has dispatched 200 tonnes of humanitarian aid to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/ndma-launches-relief-funds-for-flood-victims-in-sri-lanka\/\">Sri Lanka<\/a> via sea route after India denied permission to use its airspace.<\/p>\n<p>Due to India&#8217;s irresponsible behavior, NDMA has taken special measures to send relief goods via sea, which\u00a0will take about 8 days to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>At least 465 people have been killed as a result of last week\u2019s cyclone, another 366 remain missing, and though the rain has stopped, recovery has just begun.<\/p>\n<p>President Anura Kumara Dissanayake declared a state of emergency and called for international support.<\/p>\n<p>The relief goods included tents, blankets, quilts, life jackets, boats, water pumps, lanterns, mats, mosquito nets, powdered milk for children, rations, and medicines.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Foreign Office said that &#8220;Pakistan has dispatched 200 tons of humanitarian assistance to Sri Lanka via sea cargo to support relief efforts following the devastating cyclone Ditwah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that a send-off ceremony was held in Islamabad, attended by Bilal Azhar Kayani, Minister of State for Finance, and Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne, High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistan stands in full solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The consignment was handed over at the NDMA warehouse in Islamabad. Representatives from NDMA, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Al-Khidmat Foundation, and the media also attended the handover ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>NDMA is constantly working to deal with the devastation and negative impacts of disasters in Pakistan and other countries. Bilal Azhar said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankan envoy said that he is grateful to the people and government of Pakistan for providing immediate assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The disaster is already the deadliest since the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami of 2004, which devastated Sri Lanka\u2019s coastline.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the entire country has been affected either by landslides or floods. The Disaster Management Centre said that over 1.5 million people were affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has dispatched 200 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka via sea route after India denied permission to use its airspace. Due to India&#8217;s irresponsible behavior, NDMA has taken special measures to send relief goods via sea, which\u00a0will take about 8 days to arrive. At least 465 people have been killed as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":92715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[32668,23323],"class_list":["post-92714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-cyclone-ditwah","tag-pakistan-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92716,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92714\/revisions\/92716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}