He was addressing a meeting, which had an overview of massive relief operations being carried out by the armed forces from arrival of relief goods to their transportation and delivery through 45 grass-roots nodal points in the quake-hit areas.
"The chain of relief supplies must continue ceaselessly in the days ahead for their prompt provision at all places as well as for earliest alleviation of the sufferings of the affected people," he said.
The President said the relief aid must reach at the earliest to the deserving people and the areas in want of it.
Vice Chief of the Army Staff General Ahsan Saleem Hyat, Head of the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) Lieutenant General Muhammad Zubair, Federal Relief Commissioner Major General Farooq Ahmed Khan and senior officers of Pakistan Army and Air Force, overseeing reception, transportation and delivery of the relief goods attended the meeting.
The President was briefed about the entire process of ferrying relief assistance - from its arrival and sorting out at the airbase, railway station and collection centres across the country to its transportation and delivery in the affected areas.
The President observed that the bottlenecks earlier facing the logistics have been removed as round-the-clock endeavours by the army engineers have reopened the majority of blocked routes to ferry relief goods to remote areas.
"We should continue to strive for reaching out to people in remote areas by air, road and through animal transport and here I would like to salute the soldiers who have accessed remote areas on foot to provide life-saving goods in the most difficult terrain's."