By JERUSALEM POST STAFFPublished: SEPTEMBER 9, 2006 17:05Advertisement
Pakistan will send hundreds of army engineers to Lebanon to help the war-battered country clear land mines, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Saturday.
"The government of Pakistan today (Saturday) took a decision to send Pakistan army engineers to Lebanon on the request of the Lebanese Prime Minister, with whom I met during my recent visit to Beirut," Aziz told reporters.
"We are sending army engineers - they are in the hundreds - under the UN umbrella," Aziz said.
Pakistan will also send two military C-130 transport planes containing relief goods to Lebanon's capital, Beirut, the prime minister said.
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