Pakistan: Disaster management

The Business Recorder describes the vulnerabilities faced by Pakistan, ranging from earthquakes, floods, droughts, cyclones, landslides and sea-based hazards, and calls for the establishment of a disaster management structure with a mitigation policy to manage and co-ordinate activities of various line ministries, departments and civil society in order to provide massive relief, recovery, and rehabilitation and reconstruction. It reminds that Pakistan is a signatory of the international disaster risk reduction protocol, the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 and asserts research is required on current coping mechanisms and on sustainable community approaches to disaster reduction.