WASHINGTON – Pakistan has been at the forefront of providing rescueassistance to earthquake-hit Turkiye and now Pakistani-American doctorsraised $365,000 for quake victims, who are battling extreme weather afterwidespread destruction.
Several members of the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent ofNorth America (APPNA) joined an online telethon and raised the amount forthe earthquake response.
Pakistan’s envoy to the US, Masood Khan, and Turkish ambassador Hasan MuratMercan attended the session and briefed the participants about theearthquake. During the online session, the Association of Physicians ofPakistani Descent of North America offered to send a medical mission toquake-hit region to support relief efforts.
Masood Khan appealed Pakistani community in the US and other nations tocome forward to provide relief to the Turkish people who suffered the worstcalamity of the century as the death toll climbed up to 46,000.
On this occasion, the Turkish envoy thanked the Pakistani government andnationals for their generous support.
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Earlier, an unidentified Pakistan national has won hearts after he donateda whooping amount of $30 million in the US for victims of deadly earthquakein Turkiye and Syria.
The person walked into the Turkish Embassy in the United States where hehanded over the amount for relief activities days after Prime MinisterShehbaz Sharif urged Pakistani to come forward for the help of victims inTurkiye and Syria where death toll from Monday’s earthquake has surpassed24,000. Hopes of rescuing many more survivors are fading away, amid coldweather after the disaster.
