A well marked rain system (low pressure) is prevailing on northwestern parts of Balochistan and moderate monsoon currents are penetrating into central and upper parts of the country. PMD issued no severe weather event warning for next 24 hours however scattered rain thunder shower in various parts of central Punjab, upper KP and northwest Balochistan.
Current monsoon rains are playing havoc with life, private and public infrastructure and livelihoods across the country. The death toll has increased up to 60 and almost half of them are reported from Karachi where people are died of electrocution, demolition of house roofs and walls and other rain related incidents/accidents. This is first time
Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has issued warning that River Indus at Chasma and Kala Bagh and River Kabul may attain Medium to High Flood level in next 24 hours. Today highest rainfall 153mm was recorded at Jacbobad. For next 24 hours rain-thundershower is expected at isolated places in Upper Sindh (Sukkur, Larkana divisions), Lower Sindh
Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has issued warning of flash floods in the hill torrents of Balochistan and urban flooding for Larkana, Hyderabad and Karachi districts of Sindh in next 24-36 hours. Heavy thundershower have also been predicted for Balochistan, Sindh, KP, South Punjab, Kahsmir and its adjoining hilly areas that may cause flash floods and
Various parts of Pakistan are under low pressure which caused strong monsoon currents and receiving heavy thundershowers. Today (02 August 2013) 89mm rainfall was recorded in Sialkot. Meteorological department of Pakistan issued warning of heavy rainfall at scattered places of Nasirabad, Zhob and Qalat divisions of Balochistan district which may cause flash floods in local
32nd Program Review Meeting The 32nd Program Review Meeting was held from June 19-21, 2013 at Nathya gali. More than one hundred and fifty SPO staff participated from all regions. The assembly gathered with the idea of Looking back –Planning forward. SPO staff celebrated, cultural evening on the second day. A team building exercise and
List of Emergency Focal Persons Sr # Name Region Cell # Email 01 Mr. Jamshaid Sultan Lahore 0333-4641123 jamshedsultan@spopk.org 02 Mr. Mehrab Ali Turbat 0321-8091229 mehrab@spopk.org 03 Mr. Mir Mohammad Baloch Karachi 0333-2628574 mbaloch@spopk.org 04 Mr. Zafar Nizamani Hyderabad 0333-2983520 zafar.nizamani@spopk.org 05 Mr. Tahir Shabir Multan 0333-6448422 muhammad.tahir@spopk.org
SPO is a full member of Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) and has already covered a significant distance towards becoming an accountable organization towards its beneficiaries and donors. The technological experimentation of SPO in the field of Q&A and Complaints Response Mechanisms (CRM), has been acknowledged and appreciated by multiple global bodies including HAP and NDMA.
An Overview of Complaints Response Mechanism of SPO Following the Pakistan floods in 2011, SPO collaborated with Raabta Consultants for the designing of two way communication system with the disaster affected population of 2011 floods. SPO was working across Sindh province and had just started a new project in Mirpur Khas district, distributing food items
