Urban Task Force (UTF)  
Formulation of House Design Standards for Reconstruction and Urban
Re-Development in Earthquake Hit Areas of Pakistan.

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The Pakistan Delegation of ISoCaRP has established an Urban Task
Force (UTF) to formulate the House Design Standards for
Reconstruction and Urban Re-Development in earthquake hit areas of
Pakistan.

Members of UTF
This UTF consists of the Pakistan's Young Planners who have been
selected by ISoCaRP during last 10 years to attend Young Planners
Workshops and International Planning Congresses in different parts of
the world. The establishment of UTF is a volunteer work of Pakistan's
YPs.
These YPs include:

  1. Dr. M. Atiq ur Rahman (Japan/ Coordinator of UTF)
  2. Dr. Awais Latif Piracha (Australia)
  3. Muhammad Kashif (Canada)
  4. Zubair Anwar (Pakistan)
  5. Muhammad Imran (Australia)
  6. Ambreen Iqbal (Punjab Rural Support Porgram, Pakistan)
  7. Arif Yasin (University of Hong Kong)

Team of Supporting Experts

  1. Prof. Engr. M. H. Kango, President, Kashmir Institute of National Development
    (KIND).
  2. Prof. Dr. S. Shabih ul Hasan Zaidi, Dean Faculty of Architecture and Planning,
    Engineering University Lahore
  3. Prof. Dr. Kausar Jamal Cheema, Dean of Sciences, Lahore College University
    for Women (LCWU)
  4. Dr. Noor Jehan, University of Peshawar
  5. Mubashar Hussain, Institute of GIS/NUST
  6. Ashar H. Lodhi, Manager RS/GIS, SUPARCO
  7. Mr. Falak Nawaz, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), Thailand
  8. Imran Halim, (Norway)
  9. Dr. Arshad Ali, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tokyo, Japan
  10. Dr. Muhammad Awais, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tokyo, Japan
LINKS:

Pakistan Society of
Geographic Information
Systems (PSGIS)

Urban Development and
Environmental Research
Center (UDERC), Pakistan

Scholarships for higher
Education

ADB-Scholarships
Watch the
Interview of
General Musharaf,
the President of
Pakistan about the
cool response of the West in
response of his calls to help
Pakistan to reconstruct
earthquake hit areas of
Pakistan.
source: www.bbcurdu.com
English Language
Earthquake in
Pakistan:

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Pakistan National Delegation
International Society of City and Regional
Planners (ISoCaRP), The Netherlands
International Society of City &
Regional Planners (ISoCaRP)
National Delegation: Pakistan
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