ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday called for urgent need to implement a paradigm shift from response-oriented approach to a proactive, integrated and holistic approach to Disaster Risk Management aligned with global frameworks including the Sendai Framework for DRR and global Sustainable Development Goals.
In a message on National Resilience Day which falls on October 8, the Prime Minister said that such an approach envisaged mitigation through a mix of structural and non-structural measures, putting in place strong response mechanisms and recovery plans to minimise losses.
“It also underpins the need for preparing communities to better combat such adversities being the usual first responders,” the prime minister added.
Expressing solidarity with the bereaved families, who lost their loved ones due to devastating earthquake on October 8th 2005, he said that since then people of the country had been repeatedly affected by both hydro-meteorological and geo-physical disasters of enormous magnitude.
“We observe this day as “National Resilience Day” to not only pay homage to our people who lost their lives due to these disasters, but also as a day of our renewed national…
