The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has so far flown more than 800 tonnes of shelter equipment and tents to Pakistan from a UN warehouse in Turkey. The military alliance will also carry supplies from other stocks in Denmark and Jordan from later next week, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement.
The second phase of the airlift will deliver an additional 320,580 blankets, 15,000 plastic sheets, 995 tents, 30,996 mattresses and other equipment from the three countries, the agency added.
"Nato's contribution has been absolutely critical in getting our emergency relief supplies down to Pakistan as quickly as possible and out to the homeless survivors who are suffering immense hardship and facing a brutal winter," said the High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres. "Nato's continued help means further shelter materials we have identified in our regional warehouses will get to those who need them most," he added.
Military cargo planes from Britain, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy and Turkey and the United States have so far flown 51 flights.
The UNHCR has delivered more than 2,000 tonnes of supplies since the earthquake devastated mountainous regions of Azad Kashmir on October 8, mostly shelter equipment diverted from other relief operations.
In addition to the Nato-run effort, the refugee agency had a 14-flight airlift, partly using a chartered Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
By the end of the operation, the UNHCR hopes to have delivered more than half a million blankets and 20,000 tents to Pakistan.