By: Gul Hamaad Farooqi October 8, 2013 – CHITRAL: Disaster risk reduction day observed by Focus Humanitarian Assistance in collaboration with Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University Campus Chitral at university campus.
Addressing on the occasion experts said that Chitral is in red zone and any time a heavy earth quake can occur causing loss of human lives on a large scale if we are not prepared. They said that national disaster risk reduction day is being observing every year after 5th October 2005 where more than 80000 people died including 17000 students and 200 lecturers and teachers. District program manager Focus Humanitarian Assistance for Pakistan Amir Muhammad briefed stake holders in his presentation that housing structure of Chitrael is very vulnerable and building code must be implemented here to bound the people for adopting precasionary measurement during construction of buildings.
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