Disaster management is the process of coordinating and utilizing the available resources to deal with emergencies affecting, in order to save lives, avoid injuries and minimize losses: however, if we throw a glance towards Pakistan, it is the sixth populated country in the world but disaster still is making many people homeless due to not managing the disaster. Hence, there are some phrases that are disaster management phases. These phases are very important for managing them. Such as mitigation, preparedness, and many more. Mitigation is the first disaster management phase is such a sustained action that reduces both short-term and long-term risk to people and property from the hazards and their effects. It involves activities and of responder and manager etc. it is an effort to shorter the impact that disaster causes.

    preparedness is the second phase of disaster management, which is a set of steps that increase the ability of communities and the leader to respond to disaster, the key to effective disaster management is a readiness to provide a rapid emergency response. It is everyone’s responsibility to be prepared to face hard situations. Further, Pakistan has fallen victim to disaster many times. The earthquake of 2005, the Hunza landslide, and floods of 2010 and 2014 are some of the incidents. The present information suggests that Pakistan has suffered from large disasters due to the lack of disaster management. The flood of 2010 death a serious blow to Pakistan. And mainly responsible for not managing the floods were KPK Sindh Balochistan and Punjab. 

    The heavy rains also affected the Indus river basin. Almost one-fifth of Pakistan submerged in water at least 20 million people were directly affected by the destruction of property. In the same way, in In1935 earthquakes which occur in the region of Quetta caused many destructions in many areas of Azad Kashmir and KPK. According to date, more than 73,000 people died and 2.8 million people become homeless. If the leader or the thinker manages for disaster, then may the people do not suffer from such problems. At last, the government is requested to take serious action against such problem then may the country does not face such huge problem.

 

By: Sadia Abdul Salam.

The writer is a student at Govt girls high school Sari Kahn.