China to help Pakistan in disaster control system
From Javed Akhtar (APP)

BEIJING—World Meteorological Organization, China's National Meteorological Bureau, and eight countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and India underlined the need of developing proper management of disaster control system.
At a seminar held in capital of Tibet Autonomous Region, they agreed for promoting regional cooperation for assessment of the risks of floods, disaster control, flooding forecast.
Official sources told APP that some 60 experts from various countries adopted recommendations to improve the scheme of regional flood management and natural calamities.
They also discussed ways and means to seek solutions to floods in the Himalayas Mountains. Floods may incur serious loses to the people in China's Tibet and in the lower reaches of the rivers originating from the Himalayas region if no measures are taken to curb the natural disaster, said Gabriel Campbell, director of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMD).
Mountain flooding has been one of the major natural disasters that plague southwest China's Tibet, with the Himalayas to the south, said Dorji Cering, vice chairman of Tibet.
The official said that the Chinese government has paid great attention to the prevention and treatment of the calamity and Tibet is drafting a plan on the prevention and control of the flooding.