Pakistan has often been in the grip of severe drought episodes. According to
the depressing facts presented by World Disasters Report, (2003)6,037 people
were killed and 8,989,631 were directly or indirectly affected by the drought spell
that lasted from 1993-2002. Mishra and Singh(2010), declare 1999-2000 to be one
of the worst multi-year drought episode for Central and South-west Asia, in which