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The government is developing 250 engineering structures including dams, ponds, spillways, and drainage systems to reduce the risk of floods in Northern Pakistan.
Recalling the previous flood that had washed away several villages in Chitral district, a resident fears another calamity as the village is located in the vicinity of the glaciers that often cause outburst floods.
With agriculture in Pakistan dependent on monsoon rainfall, increased rain variability is adversely affecting economic growth. Pakistan must develop heat resistant food grains and an institutional environment facilitating these seeds' adoption.
At the launch of the Fire Safety Provisions of the 2016 Building Code of Pakistan, President Mamnoon Hussain underlined the need for devising an effective strategy for disaster risk reduction and disaster management in fire related incidents. t
Pakistan’s $36 million Climate Change Adaptation Project responding to Glacial Outburst in Northern Pakistan will benefit 185 million people. The project aims to strengthen sub-national institutional capacities to plan and implement climate change resilient development pathways and community-based Early Warning System (EWS).
Provincial Disaster Management Authority of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan organised an event commemorating the devastating earthquake in 2005 with the theme “Living with Disaster and Disability”, reports News International...
'Natural calamities could not be stopped but the effects of the disasters could be mitigated through the precautionary measures,' Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Major General Saeed Alam told The International News. He added that flood related losses could have been reduced had these measures been taken earlier...
'The local managements should adopt precautionary measures otherwise people of low-lying areas could face worst kind of difficulties,' said Meteorologist Muhammad Farooq Dar. Experts predict an increase in floods, cyclones, drought, heatwaves and food insecurity in the country for the coming years...
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