NATO to send troops to help quake-hit Pakistan

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BRUSSELS (AFP) - NATO has approved plans to send up to 1,000 troops to Pakistan as part of a beefed-up package of help for the quake-hit country, after the UN's top aid chief lobbied the alliance to do more to help.

The military bloc, which has already been transporting aid to the country, will also send a small number of helicopters to help fly in aid to survivors trapped in inaccessible mountain areas after the devastating October 8 earthquake.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer underlined that the operation was of an unprecedented scale for the 26-nation alliance.

"NATO is not an international aid agency, but the situation is so serious," he told reporters after the extra measures were agreed by NATO ambassadors in Brussels.

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[William769]

1. Maybe they will be able to find Osama Bin Laden.