Bilawal seeks greater investments in early warning systems

Author: Staff Report

Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has expressed deep grief and sorrow over the catastrophic human losses in twin disasters, a major earthquake and tsunami which devastated Palu city in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi last week.

In a statement, the PPP chairman expressed solidarity and sympathies with hundreds of families who lost their near and dear ones in the tragic incidents. “Hearts of Pakistanis go out to the people of Indonesia and we feel equal agony and pain they are experiencing in the aftermath of the natural calamity,” he added.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that international community needs measures to improve early warning systems to protect the coastal areas from such tsunami disasters in the future.

Published in Daily Times, October 2nd 2018.

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