Jordan’s Queen Rania to visit quake-hit areas

AMMAN—Jordan’s Queen Rania is to tour the quake-devastated town of Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu Kashmir at the weekend on behalf of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), her office said.
Queen Rania will travel to Muzaffarabad on Saturday (today) in her capacity as member of UNICEF’s Global Leadership Initiative, and will visit the Abbas hospital and a school run by the UN agency, the statement said.
She will also take a planeload of relief aid, including blankets, tents, medical supplies, heaters and clothing. Jordan was among the first countries to send aid to Pakistan in the aftermath of the deadly October 8 earthquake that killed more than 58,000 people and left more than three million homeless.
King Abdullah II visited Pakistan on October 14, the first foreign head of state to do so after the massive temblor. The tiny desert kingdom has already sent five planes of relief goods the quake victims along with a 25-bed mobile hospital with a 50 member staff.—INP