The decision to dispatch disaster relief assistance was taken on Friday when President Pervez Musharraf spoke to the leaders of the affected countries and assured Pakistan's full cooperation in rescue operations.

Two C-130 aircraft would fly to Indonesia on Monday to deploy a composite engineering task force and a field hospital, foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan said.

"Total deployment of these self-sustained engineering and medical units will be around 300 personnel," he said.

Pakistan will also deploy two naval ships to Sri Lanka on Monday, carrying helicopters together with a marine expeditionary force as well as doctors, paramedics, medical supplies, relief goods and food, he added.

Pakistan sent a plane load of tents, medical supplies and food to Sri Lanka immediately after the disaster.

Earlier, two Pakistan navy ships on a goodwill visit in the Maldives gave emergency rescue and relief assistance there. Their helicopter units rescued 367 people, mostly tourists from 17 nationalities.

Pakistan also sent a military aircraft carrying tents, blankets, food and medicines to Maldives on Friday, said the spokesman.

The earthquake-driven tidal waves devastated large sections of Asia's coastlines. So far more than 127,000 people have been reported killed in 11 countries.

Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, as current chairman of the seven-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, has called for "evolving a mechanism for putting in place an early warning and disaster response regime in Asia to avert such disasters in future," the statement said.

Pakistan has also decided to join the International Task Force to coordinate worldwide relief and international efforts, it said.