Indonesia sends aid to Pakistan

JAKARTA: Indonesia sent on Wednesday 12 tons of food, medicine and blankets to help survivors of last week's earthquake in Pakistan.

Vice President Jusuf Kalla said Indonesia was committed to helping foreign countries facing humanitarian crises.

Indonesia canceled a plan to dispatch a mobile military hospital to Pakistan after Islamabad said it preferred food, medicine and blankets.

Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Alwi Shihab symbolically presented the aid to Pakistan's Ambassador to Indonesia Syed Mustafa Anwar Husein in a ceremony on Wednesday.

The earthquake left some 30,000 people dead and tens of thousands of others injured. -- JP