New Delhi: India will airlift the first consignment of relief supplies to Pakistan on Tuesday.
The consignment weighing around 25 tonnes will carry relief material including tents for makeshift accommodation, blankets, plastic sheets, food and medicines for the earthquake victims.
India had also offered to send foot patrols and medical personnel across the border, but Pakistan has so far declined the offer.
This is for the first time since 1971, that an Indian Air Force aircraft will land in Pakistan.
Meanwhile rescue efforts are still on in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
Three days after the 7.6 magnitude quake shook the area official estimates place the death toll at 40,000.
Though rescue and relief teams have been mobilized, people in far-flung still await supplies.
At one of the schools in Balakot in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, workers continue to search with bare hands, removing rubble piece by piece.
Their hopes to find a few lucky survivors increased after 40 children were rescued from the rubble of the school.
A villager, Sajid Awan, said by telephone to Pakistan's Geo television that he had seen six children who were rescued at the site. He said the rescue operation was continuing when he left the area.
The Hurriyat Conference is also organizing its own relief programme in the quake-affected areas.
It will organize a mass funeral prayer for the victims in Jammu and Kashmir, PoK and Pakistan.
Chairman of the moderate separatist faction, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, will lead the prayers.
The funeral will take place after zuhar prayers at Jama Masjid in Srinagar.
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