ISLAMABAD/MUZAFFARABAD: Nationwide Resilience Day was noticed on Sunday throughout the nation together with AJK to commemorate the 18th anniversary of lethal earthquake of October 8, 2005 and lift consciousness concerning the catastrophe administration among the many public.
The earthquake claimed 1000’s of lives moreover inflicting huge injury to infrastructure particularly in Azad Kashmir and Hazara division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Completely different occasions had been organized in numerous components of the nation together with Azad Jammu and Kashmir to precise solidarity and sympathies with the victims of the calamities. The day dawned with particular prayers in mosques for the martyrs and prosperity of the nation.
One minute of silence was noticed in any respect district headquarters at 08.54 am. Final yr in September, a robust earthquake of 5.8 magnitude introduced catastrophe to totally different components of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). The quake hit some city and rural components of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) together with Muzaffarabad, Kotli and plenty of different scattered locations.
Of their separate messages on the event, President Dr Arif Alvi and Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar reaffirmed the dedication to reinforce nationwide preparedness and strengthen resilience within the face of pure disasters.
The President in his message stated we come collectively to indicate our solidarity and compassion for households who’ve endured the devastating results of unprecedented pure disasters.
The Caretaker Prime Minister in his message stated Pakistan is shifting in direction of a proactive strategy to deal with the problem of Local weather Change. Chairman NDMA sais in his message that we commemorate this event with a mission and dedication to advance nationwide preparedness by bettering and rising the nation’s resilience to pure and human induced threats.
He stated that Pakistan is going through altering climatic situation and frequent recurrence of unpredictable and excessive occasions. With the intention to meet these challenges, NDMA is proactively working at decreasing the vulnerability to disasters, and likewise offering coping mechanisms and framework for efficient catastrophe administration, he added.
The NDMA chairman stated that the catastrophe administration system in Pakistan had traveled a great distance within the latest time with formulation of Nationwide Catastrophe Threat Discount Coverage and Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Plan however nonetheless we now have to go very far by implementing these polices and plan of their true letter and spirit.
“We’ve got additionally made appreciable progress in mainstreaming catastrophe danger discount in growth processes, which is able to little doubt result in larger nationwide resilience towards potential disasters. Our expedition for resilience is constant and we have to make our utmost efforts to understand the beliefs. The Catastrophe Administration System in Pakistan is at the moment present process a change, shifting from a reactive to a proactive strategy. This represents a major change in how we collectively tackle sudden crises,” he concluded.
18 years on, Oct 8 earthquake nonetheless haunts Pakistan
Bitter recollections of the devastating earthquake of October 8, 2005 nonetheless linger on because the nation on Sunday is observing 18th anniversary of the catastrophe which claimed over 70,000 lives in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Islamabad moreover flatting scores of a number of villages and cities and leaving tens of millions of individuals homeless.
The earthquake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter Scale, struck at round 8:52 AM.
Muzaffarabad was the toughest hit, as a result of the epicentre of the quake was simply 19 kilometers (12 miles) to its northeast, whereas Balakot and Mansehra in KP had been no much less affected as 1000’s misplaced their lives in these areas too.
The earthquake, which was additionally felt in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, India and the Xinjiang area, is taken into account the deadliest earthquake in South Asia, surpassing the 1935 Quetta earthquake.
The principle ceremony in reference to the day was held in AJK capital Muzaffarabad’s Khurshid Hassan Khurshid Soccer Stadium.
AJK Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwaarul Haq was the chief visitor on the event, whereas members of the AJK cupboard, members of the Legislative Meeting, secretaries and other people belonging to all walks of life had been in attendance.
Siren was performed and a minute’s silence was noticed at 8:52 AM; the very second when the quake had struck AJK, KP and different components of northern Pakistan.
Later, the AJK PM laid floral wreath on the memorial of martyrs. Comparable ceremonies had been additionally held in different components of the AJK and KP.
‘Military position throughout earthquakes would by no means be forgotten’
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry has stated that unparalleled assist offered by the Pakistan armed forces to the earthquake victims would by no means be forgotten by the individuals of Azad Jammu Kashmir.
In an announcement, he stated that compensation for the lack of human lives attributable to the earthquake was not attainable, however the authorities tried its finest to rehabilitate the victims, rebuild and reconstruct the broken infrastructure. He thanked the worldwide neighborhood for its beneficiant assist for rescue and aid of earthquake victims in 2005.