Bangladesh to send relief goods

Bangladesh will send 20,000 blankets, clothes and medicines to earthquake victims in Pakistan, an official said on Tuesday. "The Prime Minister (Khaleda Zia) has instructed the food and disaster management ministry to send the relief materials immediately," Shahjahan Shirajee, a spokesman of the ministry told newsmen.
"The relief will be sent on an airforce plane in one or two days' time," he said.
The Bangladesh is one of the world's poorest countries with half of its 140 million population living on less than a dollar a day.