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Rs 5,000 per acre assistance for affected cultivators: PDMA

Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Director General Jawad Akram has said that under the prime minister’s agricultural relief package, the district administrations have started...

Desperation rises as Kalasha suffers post floods

Flash floods that began mid-July and have left much of Chitral battered and damaged have created a crisis for the Kalasha people, Pakistan Today has learnt.

Death toll reaches 118 as rain claims 12 more lives

With the torrential rains claiming 12 lives across country on Monday with hundreds of villages inundated after breach in protection dyke in Rajanpur and flood in River Indus near Sukkur, authorities say the death toll from flash floods triggered by seasonal monsoon rains in various parts of the country has risen to 118.

KP’s ‘mini cyclone’ restores faith in global warming

PDMA decries impossibility to act without a warning as PMD laments lack of ability to issue one Environmentalists stress need to take pro-active measures in...

Balochistan CM orders speedy relief efforts

Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has directed commissioners and deputy commissioners of all flood-affected districts of the province on Sunday to utilise...

PDMA signs MoU with IICO

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between International Islamic Charity Organisation Kuwait (IICO) and PDMA under which International Islamic Organisation would construct 200...

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...

PDMA bracing against the rain

Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Director General Mujahid Sherdil has said the PDMA is responsible for immediate response to any emergency or disaster and...

PDMA to study river settlements

Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Director General Mujahid Sherdil has said the authority is responsible for immediate response to any emergency or disaster and...

Making Punjab flood-proof: PDMA

Provincial Disaster and Management Authority Director General Mujahid Sherdil has said the arrangements have been finalised for coping with any emergency situation arising from...

PDMA to assess vulnerability of flood-prone districts

Provincial Disaster Management Authority Director General Mujahid Sherdil said on Tuesday that the PDMA is responsible for the immediate response to any emergency or...

PDMA reviews monsoon steps

Provincial Disaster Management Authority Director General Mujahid Sherdil, on Friday, directed the officers of all the departments concerned to update their flood plans in...

We keep our promises: PDMA DG

Provincial Disaster Management Authority Director General Mujahid Sherdil has said the government has honoured the promise of rehabilitation of the flood-affected through the construction...

IOM, PDMA set up roster of master trainers in Sindh

The IOM and the Sindh Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) have jointly hosted a six-day training of trainers on Camp Coordination and Camp Management...

Steps needed to protect children during disasters: DG PDMA Khalid Sherdil

Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Director General, Khalid Sherdil has stressed the need for serious steps for child protection with special mention of disasters....

PDMA doing president’s home district a favour?

Even though monsoon rains and the swollen Left Bank Outfall Drain (LBOD) have inundated most of Tharparkar, Umerkot, Mirpurkhas and Sanghar districts, officials of...

PDMA orders district administrations to take all measures for relief of...

The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) of the Rehabilitation Department has issued directives to all administrators/district coordination officers (DCOs), district disaster management authorities, Karachi...