Pakistan's floods: 'No lessons learnt from mistakes'

Source(s): Business Recorder
by Flickr user IRIN Photos, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/irinphotos/4971108904/

by Flickr user IRIN Photos, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0, http://www.flickr.com/photos/irinphotos/4971108904/

"Prevention is better than cure," but "the Pakistani government seems to be more concerned with the cure part of the statement than with prevention," asserts the Business Recorder, which points to the analysis that were made available to the Pakistan government and the recommendations ranging from multi-faceted measures from enhanced community awareness and institutional development to catastrophe risk financing and early warning systems.

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