The Catastrophic event and the Disastrous weakness!

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The recent catastrophic event of January 04, 2010 in Attabad Hunza and the aftermath has lately triggered my mind to reflect upon the working of various governmental and NGOs in the affected areas. Although sitting in Lahore and driving conclusions about the activities in Hunza is a very naive approach, nevertheless the aim of this scrap is to point out a very common issue regarding the work of organizations any where in our country.

After every thing had happened in Hunza, we saw a response from the government and NGOs working in Gilgit-Baltistan, FOCUS Humanitarian to name the major NGO. Here the point to note was the aggressive attitude of the people against the government, even after it keeps on putting in effort. People demonstrated against the government in Hunza, Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi and it has not stopped yet. Their major demand is the effective intervention of the government in the rescue operation in Gojal and, Hunza.

Let us suppose that the government is doing its best as the authorities have been claiming so, then why do the people stand unsatisfied? This signals a loop hole in the coordination between our institutions working in Hunza. The FWO, Pak-Army , Focus Humanitarian need to have such a strong liaison that each provide a back-up to another and serve the people even better.

The event being a natural disaster was unstoppable, but the disaster being caused by lack of proper communication and coordination among the various rescue institutions can be stopped immediately.

Note: It is based on the few minutes of discussion in one of my sociology classes when I raised the issue.