{"id":69061,"date":"2018-06-20T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T08:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=69061"},"modified":"2018-06-20T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T08:47:19","slug":"pakistan-fully-committed-to-play-its-role-in-serving-humanity-facing-disasters-azam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=69061","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan fully committed to play its role in serving humanity facing disasters: Azam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, June 20 (TNS): Caretaker Interior Minister Azam Khan says coordinated strategy needs to be pursued at international level to cope with the common challenge of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a two-day international conference on disaster management in Islamabad on Wednesday he said Pakistan is fully committed to play its role in serving humanity facing disasters.<\/p>\n<p>The Interior Minister said Pakistan has incurred huge losses due to natural calamities; however, it is now fully capable to deal with such situations through lessons learnt.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the occasion, Chairman National Disaster Management Authority Lt. Gen. Umer Hayat said the disaster manage system in the country has been improved.<\/p>\n<p>He said the System has been playing important role in proving first hand aid to the people affected by disasters.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the conference, UNDP Country Director Pakistan Ignacio Artaza assured UN support for policies that target both natural resource management and climate change mitigation at national, provincial and community levels.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting natural beauty in Pakistan, Swiss Ambassador to Pakistan Thomas Kolly said Pakistan is playing an important role in dealing with floods and other calamities in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, June 20 (TNS): Caretaker Interior Minister Azam Khan says coordinated strategy needs to be pursued at international level to cope with the common challenge of climate change. Addressing a two-day international conference on disaster management in Islamabad on Wednesday he said Pakistan is fully committed to play its role in serving humanity facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69064,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69061\/revisions\/69064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}