By Muhammad Luqman
Pakistan has sent relief goods for the affectees of the deadly earthquake that struck Iran on November 12 and wreaked havoc particularly in the Western province of Kermanshah.
“The relief assistance consists of the items identified by the Iranian side in accordance with the relief requirements in the earthquake affected area,” Pakistan’s Foreign Office said.
“The people and Government of Pakistan are deeply grieved at the immense loss of lives and destruction caused to our Iranian brothers in the earthquake that jolted the bordering regions of Iran and Iraq,” the statement added.
Iran had sent relief goods to Pakistan in the aftermath of the earthquake in 2005 and floods in 2010.
More than 500 people were killed after a powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Iraq-Iran border on November 12.
The quake was centered 19 miles outside the eastern Iraqi city of Halabja and struck around 9:48 p.m. Iran time. Residents were retiring for the night at the time. Iran’s western Kermanshah province, a rural mountainous region, bore the brunt of the temblor, with Iran’s state-run news agency reporting the quake killed 407 people in the country and injured another 6,700.
In Iraq, the earthquake killed at least seven people and injured 535 there, all in the country’s northern, semiautonomous Kurdish region, according to Iraq’s Interior Ministry.
