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All kinds of challenges that the Government of Pakistan declares as disasters; relief activities during and after the disasters; relief and rehabilitation of the disaster-hit areas and communities; disaster-related gender and social issues; disaster-related diseases, pandemics and medical challenges and activities.
Once again, monsoon rains have inundated vast stretches of Pakistan. Villages lie submerged, farmland ruined and families displaced. Such calamities are often described as “acts of God.” However, evidence increasingly shows ...
Floods are not new to Pakistan. Since the catastrophic deluge of 2010 that inundated a fifth of the nation to the record monsoon flood of 2022 that displaced 33 million people, the country has witnessed time and again how rising...
IN reporting on floods, four terms have been used constantly. They have traditional planning-related meanings, which can no longer be applied to them because of the phenomenon of climate change. These are: ‘master plan’, ‘...
A MIX of natural calamities, terrorism and bureaucratic ineptitude has resulted in difficulties for students in KP’s Khyber tribal district. In fact, the situation in Khyber reminds us of the disruptions in education that tens...
KARACHI When the rains came this year, the fields in southern Punjab turned into shallow lakes overnight. Families marked the rising water on their walls, livestock was shifted to rooftops, and crops that had taken months of lab...
For most of its existence, humankind has tried to make sense of, cursed, battled, and at times even invoked natural calamities over which it had little control. This unpredictability and uncontrollability stemmed mainly from the...
ISLAMABAD: Federal IT Minister Shaza Fatima Khawaja assured on Saturday that the government is actively engaged with PTCL and international partners to resolve slow internet service and disruptions without delay, while also guar...
LAHORE: As rescue and relief operations get underway, Sialkot, Narowal and Jhang have emerged as the three worst flood-affected districts across Punjab so far, according to a Punjab’s Provincial Disaster Management Authority (...
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir visited flood-hit areas in Kasur and Multan on Saturday to review the situation and ongoing relief efforts, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. ...
NAROWAL: Losses of more than Rs10 billion have been reported by farmers as rice and other crops cultivated on 140,250 acres of agricultural land have been lost due to the recent flooding in the Narowal district. As ...