The Asian Development Bank (ADB) granted Rs. 261 million to Pakistan to help the rehabilitation processes for the recent flood-affected people in the province of Sindh and Balochistan on Thursday. The donation was granted from the Asia-Pacific Disaster Response Fund, which will assist the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to provide food, drinking water, medicines […]
Oct 29 2011 | Posted in
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NDMA to form National Disaster Management Plan in country In view of country’s vulnerability to disasters, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is working on National Disaster Management Plan and Multi Hazard Contingency Plan to minimise loss of lives and property during natural calamities. The country is vulnerable to wide-ranging hazards from droughts to floods to […]
More aid needed for Pakistan’s flood effected pregnant women: Pleads a Geneva based humanitarian group On Thursday, CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere) noted that only 22 per cent of the funding pledged to Pakistan has been dispersed. It issued a plea for more funding for pregnant women, who were deemed as a particularly […]
Oct 21 2011 | Posted in
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Who is gaining more in the battle of development? In the name of development funds, aid, help and ‘doing good’ churns the wheel of many businesses which we term as Nongovernmental Organistions. There are now zillions of them operating in the name of ‘helping and developing’. The curse obviously falls upon the third world countries […]
Oct 17 2011 | Posted in
Editorial,
Pakistan |
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