Copyright 2006, Reuters AlertNet http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/rss/bloggers.xml?uid=33883 en-gb Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:27:16 GMT 5 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/rss/bloggers.xml?uid=33883 http://www.alertnet.org/images/rtrfndn_alertnet_new_tr.gif http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/33883/2007/06/11-105937-1.htm http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/33883/2007/06/11-105937-1.htm Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:59:00 GMT "Those who prepare in advance, suffer less in emergencies," observed Lt. General Farooq Ahmad Khan, chairman of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) at the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction gathering in Geneva last month.

Ironically, within two weeks of this assertion, the pre-monsoon rain spell in Karachi and North West Frontier Province, and the tropical cyclone along the coastal belt of Sindh and Baluchistan, exposed the low level of preparedness against recurring hazards in Pakistan.

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