ISLAMABAD, Feb 16: The Utility Stores Corporation (USC) has sent relief goods containing eatables to the district coordination officers of Mansehra and Swat.

The goods has been sent on the directives of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz after a demand had been made by NWFP government.

According to a press release issued here on Wednesday, these relief goods had been delivered to the Mansehra DCO by the USC regional office in Abbottabad on emergent basis, which would be distributed among the affected people of district Abbottabad, Mansehra, Batagram and Kohistan.

Similarly, the corporation, through its Peshawar regional office, has delivered relief goods to the Swat DCO to distribute them among the affected people of the Swat, Shangla, upper Dir and Lower Dir. The above relief package will be delivered through helicopters.

OUR REPORTER ADDS: A C-130 carrying 8,000 blankets donated by members of the Senate for the flood-affected areas of Balochistan left Chaklala air base for Pasni on Wednesday morning. Another consignment of 8,000 blankets will be dispatched to the rain- and snow-affected people of NWFP soon, says a press release issued by the Senate Secretariat.

Tents would also be arranged for the needy people in the next few days for which Rs1 million have been collected. During the last Senate session, the members of the upper House had donated their one month's salaries for the affected people of Balochistan and the NWFP.

The senators who also left for Balochistan along with the relief goods included Kalsoom Parveen, Roshan Khursheed Bahrocha, Noor Jehan Panezai, Nighat Agha and Pari Gul Agha. They will personally supervise the distribution of the relief items.