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Pakistan dispatches 2nd shipment of humanitarian aid to Lebanon

Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has sent a second humanitarian aid shipment to Lebanon, where Israel has been conducting airstrikes, Radio Pakistan reports.

The consignment was dispatched from Karachi and on the directives of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

The aid shipment — sent by the NDMA in collaboration with Al-Khidmat Foundation — comprises approximately 100 tons of supplies, including medicines, ready-to-eat meat, tents, tarpaulins, warm bedding, winter clothing, and powdered milk.

The aid was dispatched via flight from Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport to Beirut.

Meanwhile, ten aid consignments have been so far been sent to Gaza.

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