"At the moment, what is urgently required is relief for the people, affected people," Musharraf told CNN.

"I think we have got, I would call it, reasonable support in the relief operation, in the form of medical assistance, medical teams, hospitals, field hospitals, medical aid, medicines, equipment, and in the form of shelter, blankets, tents, other relief goods, including food stuff," he said.

Pakistan is "extremely grateful" for the assistance, but Musharraf said he hoped to receive more help for reconstruction at a donors' conference in Islamabad on November 19.

He said he was personally preparing a database to determine how to distribute the aid to communities in need.

"Once I compile that data and I give it out, that is where we will seek assistance, and it is in the reconstruction and rehabilitation where I would say the assistance until now is not -- certainly not of the level that we expect," Musharraf said.

He said UN agencies, the World Bank and Pakistan have determined that the country needs 3.5 billion dollars for reconstruction, 1.5 billion dollars for relief and 100 million dollars for rehabilitation.

"This is the kind of money we are looking for, and I don't think we have even got a small fraction of this. But I hope on the 19th of November, when we have called this conference, we hope to be given assistance generously," he said.

The 7.6-magnitude earthquake on October 8 killed nearly 74,000 people in Pakistan and more than 1,300 in India. The catastrophe made some three million people homeless.

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