The warning of fast approaching monsoon should find proper place on the
government’s priority list before it is too late to act
By Naseer Memon
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The forgotten people- By: Naseer Memon
RECENTLY, a report titled Pakistan flood emergency: Lessons from a continuing crisis was prepared by a collaborative group of over a dozen leading international and national humanitarian aid agencies.
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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Participation of Shirkat Gah in a Meeting with the President of Pakistan
Venue: President House, Islamabad
Date and time: September 29th, 4.00- 6.00 p.m.
Participants: 60 Organizations (including Shirkat Gah – Women’s Resource Centre), Women Ministers, Women Parliamentarians and Bureaucrats participated.
Subject: Roundtable meeting of prominent women, and a few men (Ministers etc.) who were working or were related to the flood response.
Objective: To discuss and evolve a comprehensive strategy for the rehabilitation of flood affectees in general and women and children in particular.
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