A second
ship of the Pakistan Navy departed on Saturday with 500 tons of relief supplies
for people affected by twin earthquakes in
Türkiye and Syria on Feb. 6. The
ship PNS Moawin, which departed from Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, is carrying 2,600 winterized tents a
nd 38,000 blankets for
Türkiye and 22,000 blankets, ration packets, and generators for Syria, said a statement from the state-run National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). The
ship is scheduled to arrive in the Turkish port of Mersin on March 23 and in Syria on March 30. Chairman NDMA Lt-Gen. Haider Malik, Turkish Consul General in Karachi Cemal Sangu, and Commander Pakistan Fl
eet Rear Admiral Faisal Abbasi saw the
ship off in a simple ceremony at Karachi Harbor.