Pakistan: Disaster risk - No possibility of floods in monsoon, says PMD

The Express Tribune reports that the Pakistani National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Director General (DG) Ahmad Kamal said, natural disasters cannot be pre-empted but their impact can be mitigated by planning.

“We have requested the government to include disaster management as a subject in the syllabus till matriculation,” said DG NDMA. “Disasters, whether natural or technological occurrences, have an adverse effect on efforts aimed at sustainable development.”

Referencing the 2006 national disaster management framework, the report cited one expert participant, Dr Shafiquddin, as having said “We lack disaster preparedness and no significant effort has been made to improve the situation.”