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Countries are giving aid to the earthquake hit countries of South Asia.

Relief supplies poured into Pakistan from about 30 countries, including 25 tons of tents, medical supplies and food from longtime rival India. The biggest challenge lay in getting supplies to outlying and remote villages.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (search) arrived in Islamabad on a regional tour and promised long-term U.S. help for Pakistan. She also predicted more American aid beyond the $50 million already committed.

In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Larry Di Rita said 25-30 U.S. military helicopters would be in the region in the next few days. The American choppers ferried about 16 tons of supplies and evacuated more than 100 casualties out of the region on Tuesday, though bad weather forced suspension of some of the efforts, he told FOX News.

U.S. cargo aircraft were also delivering food, water, medicine, blankets, and plastic sheets to the victims.

"We'll provide what we're asked to provide if we have the capability" including mobile hospitals, Di Rita told FOX News, adding that NATO and the United Nations are also involved.

The 7.6-magnitude earthquake demolished whole communities, mostly in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, divided into Indian and Pakistani territories by a cease-fire line near the quake epicenter. The U.N. estimated that 2 million people have been left homeless.
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U.S., Pakistani, German, and Afghan helicopters resumed aid flights suspended because of stormy weather. They brought food, medicine and other supplies to Muzaffarabad, then ferried injured to hospitals. Some 50,000 Pakistani troops joined the relief effort.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz (search) said small aircraft were able to land at the Muzaffarabad airport, but C-130 transport planes were only able to airdrop equipment and supplies.

Desperate residents mobbed trucks with food and water, grabbing whatever they could. The weak were pushed aside.

Jan Vandemoortele, U.N. resident coordinator for Pakistan, said key roads into the quake zone that were blocked earlier have been opened up. U.S. military spokesman Col. James Yonts said that with the resumption of flights, helicopters were able to release any backlog of aid.

About 30 countries — also including France, Japan, Jordan, China, Russia, Iran, and Syria — and the United Nations have sent relief equipment, doctors, paramedics, tents, blankets, medicines, and disaster relief teams. Many also have pledged financial assistance, and Japan's Defense Ministry said Wednesday it would send about 290 troops and three helicopters to help transport aid.

"Relief material is moving in," Vandemoortele said in Islamabad. "It is getting there. Roads are open now. We have several trucks that are all loaded and on the road now."

The transport plane from India brought tents, medicine and other goods, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said.