The second batch of relief goods from Pakistan is due in China today, Tuesday for the affected people of May 12 devastated earthquake, said an embassy official.

The two military aircraft carrying relief goods are due to land in Chengdu tomorrow, the capital city of Sichuan Province that was badly affected by the tremor.

Earlier, two planes loaded with relief goods for the earthquake affectees arrived from Pakistan in Chengdu on last Friday.

The relief goods arrived on Friday comprised tents, medicines, plastic mats, bottled water, etc were received at the airport by Consulate General of Pakistan in Chengdu, Masood Akhtar who handed over the consignments to the senior officials of Sichuan Ministry of Foreign Affairs who were present on the occasion.

Meanwhile, the Pakistan's Charge D'Affairs here Abdul Salik Khan has presented cash renminbi equal to Rs 90,000 as relief amount on behalf of the officers and staff of Pakistan Embassy to the Director General, Asia Affairs Huzheng Yue.

Accompanied by senior officials of Pakistan Embassy including Counsellor Press and Culture Muhammad Iftikhar Raja and First Secretary Syed Naveed Safdar Bokhari, Salik Khan also expressed heartfelt sympathies on the loss of life and property in quake-hit districts of China.

Quake Update

Meanwhile, another report says that communications in most counties hit by the devastating May 12 quake in southwest China have been restored, said a senior official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Monday.

Communications fibre cables in Wenchuan, Lixian, Maoxian, Qingchuan, Pingwu and Heishui were all through, but Beichuan still had to rely on emergency communications vehicles, said the vice minister of the ministry Xi Guohua at a press conference.

The key fibre cables at Heishui, the repair of which encountered the most difficulties, were connected to the network at 5:28 p.m. on Sunday despite several aftershocks, he said.

These seven counties in Sichuan Province, along with many townships under their administration, were cut off from the outside world after the 8-magnitude earthquake on May 12.

The devastating earthquake has left 34,073 people dead nationwide as of 12:00 a.m. Monday, and another 9,509 people remained buried in the worst hit Sichuan Province.

About 76 of the 151 townships hit by the quake have seen communication cables put through, and repair work in the remaining 33 townships was still underway, Xi said.

"We will use minor-caliber satellite facilities along with new fibre cables to fix the network in these 33 townships," Xi said, "we promise it would be done in a few days to make the rescue and relief work easier."

"The most difficult thing for us is that roads to these townships are still blocked, and equipment for the repair work can only be delivered by helicopters," he added.

He told reporters the repair work had been progressing by 200 meters at a time with workers carrying the needed fibre cables on their shoulders to the site amid danger from repeated landslide and rolling stones.