KARACHI, Oct 16: The Al-Khidmat Welfare Society Karachi has sent two more containers and eight trucks, loaded with relief goods, from the Idara Noor-i-Haq to earthquake-hit areas on Sunday.

The relief goods, the sixth consignment, included blankets, medicines, food items, pulses, sugar, tea, mineral water, shroud cloth, etc, according to a press release.

Six more trucks loaded with goods were also dispatched by the Al-Khidmat (Women Wing). These goods were sent to affected areas from base camps set up at Mansehra, Muzaffarabad and Abbotabad.

The relief goods were being collected by the JI workers at 65 relief camps set up in the city at various places.

The press release added that 500 kg of lifesaving drugs were also dispatched by air to Muzaffarabad where its doctors and surgeons teams were busy in providing necessary medical treatment to victims.

In addition, a 15-member medical mission from Karachi had also left for Azad Kashmir.

The mission was carrying with them a mobile operation theatre and other surgical instruments and medicines. They would join doctors working in field hospitals and first aid relief camps set up by Al-Khidmat and Jamaat-i-Islami.

Meanwhile, speaking at a gathering of collective “Istaghfar”, the JI Karachi Amir, Mairajul Huda Siddiqui, said natural calamities were aimed at warning people to reform themselves and seek forgiveness from Allah.

He said that, in the present national tragedy, we should continue our efforts of providing relief to the victims over and above all political, ethnic, regional prejudices, and seek the blessings of Allah in the sacred month of Ramazan.

Meanwhile, the Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba, Karachi’s General Secretary, Amir Ashraf, leading a team of over 50 volunteers comprising students of colleges, the University of Karachi, NED University, and other professional institutions to Muzaffarabad, Bagh and other earthquake-hit areas, is already engaged in relief work for the last three days.

An IJT press release said that nine trucks carrying medicines, dry milk, blankets, warm clothes, jackets, shoes, tents and edibles worth Rs3.5 million were being distributed by the IJT among the quake victims.