Pakistan: Mitigating disaster

In his opinion for Dawn, Mohammad Hussain Khan says that as far as disaster mitigation is concerned, the government apparatus has learnt nothing from last year’s floods. All structural issues remain unresolved, particularly at the district level, even though the comprehensive National Disaster Management Act 2010 has been enacted, he continues. He urges the federal and provincial governments to seriously consider disaster mitigation methodologies with reference to changing weather patterns as "adaptation is key to disaster risk reduction."