NATO has started to airlift UN aid to earthquake victims in south Asia.
900 tonnes of aid is being flown in to Pakistan and Kashmir but UN officials have warned that far more is needed.
Earlier, the UN's emergency relief co-ordinator, Jan Egeland, warned that the shortfall in aid made the situation worse than the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami last year.
'This is not enough,' Mr Egeland told journalists. 'We have never had this kind of logistical nightmare ever. We thought the tsunami was the worst we could get. This is worse.'
Mr Egeland’s comments echo last night’s appeal by the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, for the world’s nations to commit more aid to the UN’s flash appeal for €260m.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani Interior Minister, Aftab Sherpao, has confirmed that the offical death toll from the 8 October earthquake has reached 48,000.
Mr Sherpao said the victims included 30,000 people in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, more than 16,000 in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province and about 100 others elsewhere in Pakistan.
India has also reported over 1,300 deaths in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir.
He added that yesterday's reports saying 79,000 people had died in the disaster were inflated and not credible.
