[Radix] PAKISTAN: Responding to disasters

[Amjad Bhatti]

"THOSE who prepare in advance, suffer less in emergencies." This was observed by Lt. General Farooq Ahmad Khan, chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) during the plenary session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Geneva last month.

Ironically, within two weeks of this assertion, the pre-monsoon rain spell in Karachi and the NWFP and the tropical cyclone along the coastal belt of Sindh and Balochistan exposed the lowest level of preparedness against recurring hazards in Pakistan.
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