The 1st batch of the Saudi rescue team arrived here today to participate in the relief works in Pakistan. The members of the rescue team arrived here abroad three planes, and they were welcomed at Karachi airport by Saudi ambassador to Pakistan Abdul-Aziz Al-Ghadeer and other officials. Al-Ghadeer said the Saudi rescue team will leave for Hyderabad for to undertake relief works along with the Pakistani armed forces in the rescue operations for persons affected by floods in Pakistan's Sindh region. He noted that sending the rescue team has come in line with the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah Ibn Abdul-Aziz. He noted that the support of the Kingdom to Pakistan embodies the existing fraternal relations between the two countries. Meanwhile, Major-General Najmuddin Khan, head of relief operations of the Pakistani army in southern Sind region, said the Kingdom was the first country to send a rescue team to work along with the Pakistan army. He praised the support extended by the Kingdom to Pakistan in these hard times.
