Pakistan and India have agreed to open up access points along their borders to the disputed region of Kashmir to allow aid workers to reach thousands of survivors of the south Asia earthquake.
Officials from both sides met in Islamibad after Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf called for an easing of the heavily militarised frontier in the aftermath of the earthquake.
Meanwhile, the United Nations has warned that air aid and other relief measures will have to be scaled back unless millions more in donations are made.
Pakistani officials now say 55,000 people died in the earthquake disaster and another 78, 000 were injured.
Another 1,300 died in Indian Kashmir.
Aid workers fear a similar number could die of hunger and exposure after the quake, which left more than three million homeless or needing shelter.
