For two years in a row, Pakistan has been hit by heavy rains and severe flooding. Since July 2010, over 29 million people have been affected and 3.2 million homes damaged. This year alone, around 2.7 hectares of farmland has been destroyed and 675,000 people displaced from their homes.
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Food for All
Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri, an expert on food security, gives an insight on the different dimensions of the prevailing crisis
Dr Suleri is the Executive Director, Social Development Policy Institute (SDPI), social policy analyst and development practitioner. He is currently working on a comparative analysis of Pakistan’s districts in terms of the state of food insecurity.
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Managing Disaster- By: Naseer Memon
Daily Dawn-14th July 2010
link: http://www.dawn.com/2011/07/14/managing-disaster.html
PREDICTIONS about this year’s monsoon season are ominous. The forecast of 10 per cent higher than normal rainfall in the country’s upper catchment areas should set alarm bells ringing.
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Root causes of floods- By: Naseer Memon
Dawn-21st June 2011
THE flood inquiry commission formed in the wake of the 2010 floods, under the Supreme Court’s directive, has unveiled that a major cause of the devastating breach of Tori dyke was brazen negligence by the irrigation department.
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