Tag: Flood
Qaim for implementing Pre-Monsoon 2012 Contingency Plan
Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah has directed all the concerned departments to strictly implement the “Pre Monsoon 2012 Contingency Plan” so that...
KP govt finalises strategy to cope with possible floods
Keeping in view forecasts regarding heavy monsoon rains, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Monday finalised a strategy wherein emergency arrangements would be made for...
Punjab govt keen to rehabilitate flood affectees soon: PDMA DG
Director General Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Mujahid Sherdil on Friday said that model villages had been constructed at 333.81 acre of land where...
Flood resilience seminar analyses rural reconstruction guidelines
A seminar on the ‘Pakistan Flood Resilience Studies Project’ was organised by the Provincial Disaster Management Authority at the PDMA Command Control and Communication...
Seminar held on flood resilience studies
A seminar was arranged on ‘Pakistan Flood Resilience Studies project’ by the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) on Saturday. PDMA Director General Mujahid Sherdil...
BASF hands over 113 shelters to flood affectees in Thatta
BASF in collaboration with the Government of Japan and UN-Habitat handed over 113 newly constructed shelters to the residents of Gul Mohammad Gandhro Village,...
Royal Palm Flood Lit Cricket
After five evenings of entertaining cricket at the extremely well-lit Royal Palm Cricketing arena, supported by F.R Cables and Chawla Aluminium, 12 out of...
Royal Palm Flood Lit Cricket
The Royal Palm Flood Lit Cricket Championship will be played at the dazzling Royal Palm Cricket Arena over six days, endorsed and supported by...
EU hands extra 20m euros for flood victims
Brussels on Monday announced a further 20 million euros in aid to victims of Pakistan’s 2011 monsoon floods, as well as people displaced by...
Swat’s forgotten flood and terror victims
Nissa Bibi, 40, carries a mobile phone on an orange ribbon round her neck in the hope that her sister - Shahina Bibi who...
Flood warning at Attaabad Lake with new spillway opening
The temporary embankment of the new spillway of Attaabad Lake will be destroyed today (Monday). A high alert has been declared in Hunza and...
300 wheelchairs distributed among flood affectees
Mahvash and Jahangir Foundation in collaboration with US-based Walkabout Foundation working for the welfare of persons with disabilities and assisted by Special Talent Exchange...
Millions of flood victims still at risk
A feeble international response to Pakistan’s second major flooding crisis in two years has left millions of people at serious risk of malnutrition and...
Young flood survivors can drive their way out of...
There are many nongovernmental organisations helping the flood-hit people of Sindh live a normal life again, but the Sindh Radiant Organisation (SRO) has come...
Centre, Sindh govt’s poor flood response criticised
Noted experts, intellectuals, writers, human rights activists and civil society representatives expressed grave concern on Friday over the federal and Sindh governments’ failure in...
Lo and behold! 2nd Watan Card tranche only for 260,000
After helping out more than one million flood-affected families in the first phase under the Watan Card scheme last year, the Sindh government has...
‘Talk… for the sake of flood rehabilitation’
Due to lack of coordination between the government and the international donor agencies, several rehabilitation projects in the flood-hit areas of Sindh have failed...
