Germany, Geilenkirchen:
The first NATO flight with humanitarian relief for Pakistan took off from the Geilenkirchen airbase in Germany on Sunday morning.
Relief goods on the NATO Trainer Cargo Aircraft include power generators, water pumps and tents.
Maurits Jochems, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Operations, said the goods were donated by Slovakia.
"In very big natural disasters the first responders usually are overwhelmed and it's then that the military have a function," said Jochems.
Jochems said NATO has been coordinating the delivery of aid donated by NATO nations and partner nations in response to a request by the government of Pakistan on August 7.
In this case, the aid was being transported in a NATO plane, Jochems said, but the "aid is going on already much longer than Monday."
On Sunday, Pakistan's foreign minister said the world has given or pledged more than 800 (m) million US dollars to help Pakistan cope with the massive floods.
The United Nations appealed for 460 (m) million US dollars in aid for the deluged country, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said.
The floods began in late July in the northwest after exceptionally heavy monsoon rains, expanding rivers that have since swamped eastern Punjab province and Sindh province in the south.
The deluge has affected about one-fifth of Pakistan's territory, straining the civilian government as it also struggles against Al-Qaida and Taliban violence.
At least 6 (m) million people have been made homeless and 20 (m) million affected overall.
Aid flowed relatively slowly to Pakistan in the first weeks of the crisis, apparently in part because many countries were unaware of the vast scope of the damage.
A relatively low death toll - around 1,500 people - may also have contributed to false impressions of the scale of the disaster, analysts have said.