Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif spoke today with his Myanmar counterpart Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and conveyed deepest condolences over the loss of precious lives and property due to the devastating earthquake.

Shehbaz Sharif assured the Prime Minister of Myanmar, who is also Chairman of the State Administration Council, that Pakistan stands ready to provide any assistance to alleviate the suffering of those affected by the earthquake. He also informed the Myanmar side that, upon his directions, National Disaster Management Authority of Pakistan would be dispatching around 70 tons of relief goods to Myanmar, in two sorties that would arrive within next 48 hours, to help the earthquake affected people.

More than seventeen hundred people have been confirmed dead in the earthquake that struck Myanmar last Friday.