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SAARC Region?s First UN-KAKHTAH

Digital Repository being Established at
CIMR, PU?Pakistan's University of Punjab
to Take the Historic Edge.
A number of ?KAKHTAH Disaster Early Warning Observatory-Axes? and ?KAKHTAH DRR
Digital Repositories? are decided to be instituted in several universities ,with a vision of crossboundary and cross-disciplinary integration for disaster preparedness. Pakistan?s University
of the Punjab (PU), becomes the first within the SAARC-ASEAN region to establish the UNKAKHTAH repository for DRR research.
Breaking News/UN/Asia: Lahore, Pakistan, Asia, December 31, 2015 /PressReleasePing/ A resolution has been unanimously passed by academicians from all major universities of
Asia under the auspices-perseverance of United Nations, which acclaims to establish the
KAKHTAH Post-doc Multiversity Repositories of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Research,
across the region, along with a post-doc scholarship for DRR studies.

In several universities within SAARC-ASEAN region, a number of KAKHTAH Disaster Early

Warning Observatory-Axes and KAKHTAH DRR Digital Repositories are decided to be
instituted with a vision of cross-boundary and cross-disciplinary integration for disaster
preparedness.

Pakistans University of the Punjab (PU), becomes the first to establish the UN-KAKHTAH
repository within the SAARC region, for DRR research.

The VC Prof. Dr. Mujahid Kamran has welcomed the momentous avenue-prospect. The PU
greets the significant maiden and declares it an institutional landmark that is going to be a
contributive opening of new horizons for boththe academia and the society.

The multiversity repository is intended to serve as the SAARC regions institutional hub for
catering the ISDR needs and DRR research works up-to the post-doctoral level.

Professor Emeritus Dr. Zaki, Dr. Khalida M. Khan, holder of UNESCO chair and DESIMGOW
research moderator at PU, Dr. Bareera N. B., Dr. Azam Sheikh and Lt. Col (R) Azhar Saleem
would presently serve as the repositorys board of directors.

The Title-Ovation of KAKHTAH Multiversity:

The revolutionary-edged KAKHTAH multiversity and scholarship medal gets its title-ovation
and has been posthumously named after the four legendary stalwarts who became
responsible for bringing forth some real difference during the hardest test of human
solidaritythe aftermaths of Asian Tsunami of 2004, through their meritorious
renderingsthe two individual entities and the two organizational bodies;

1- Kofi Annan - the former UN secretary general, who paid prompt visits in far-remote
affected areas with an aim to have a first-hand knowledge of the ground situation. He himself
prompted for the actual circumstantial state-of-affairs, instead of relying on the executive
summaries--rightly setting a new custom and tradition in the modern hierarchical spheres.

2- Helen Keller Intl- a US based international organization that immediately incited the
emergency humanitarian services in Indonesias hardest-hit regions, saving the lives where
needed rightly by the moment of need.

3- Tzu-chi Foundation- a multi-regional NGO from Taiwan, having one of the largest
networks with representations and physical presence in almost all continents throughout the
world, whose volunteers remained on-board for over three years for long-term Tsunami relief
works in Sri Lanka.

4- Aurangzeb Hafi- a multi-disciplinary arch-researcher and SAARC regions DRR P.I. expert
from Pakistan, who was the prime investigatory head of the projects concerning the disable
population of the Tsunami refugee camps in Sri Lanka. He also maintained technical liaisons
with the UN and other concerned agencies. He can justly be credited for bringing forth and
foremostly orchestrating the concepts of disability-inclusive and pregnancy-inclusive
protocols in DRR policy frameworks, during the first epidemiological assessment appraisals
of Tsunami-2004.

The cutting-edge concepts of pre-birth multiple disabilities risk assessment, embryonic toxicity

and teratogenicity proneness factor analysis among pregnant women and the
disability+pregnancy inclusive special protocols in cataclysmic emergencies have been
pioneered by Prof. Hafi, and remain as a core-focus of A.Z.Hafi-DESPO Appraisals as well.

Prof. Hafis pioneering concepts in DESPO DRR Modus-operandi have now been widely
acknowledged and ascribed at the UN level, and have been incorporated in the ISDR
frameworks of UN led missions for DRR.

Pakistans Qadhi Aurangzeb Al Hafi has long been working in the subject-matters concerning
the health consequences directly affecting the disabled, the children under 5 and pregnant
women.

For more details:

http://unesco-isdr-asia.org/kakhtah-multiversity-drr-digital-repository/
http://www.reuters.com/article/tsunamisummit-idUSnPn6SgQ0Q+95+PRN20151230
Lahore, Pakistan, Asia
Dr. F. M. Bhatti
CIMR
director@cimr.edu.pk
www.cimr.edu.pk
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