Federal Cabinet approves National Sanitation Policy

The cabinet approves national sanitation policy to provide adequate sanitation coverage for improving quality of life of the people of Pakistan and their physical environment necessary for healthy life. The main emphasis of the policy was to ensure safe disposal of liquid and solid waste, promotion of healthy and hygiene practices and to enhance capacity building of government agencies.

The Policy resolves to meet the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs) and targets whereby the proportion of people without sustainable access to improved sanitation will be reduced by half, by the year 2015 and 100 per cent population will be served by 2025 with improved sanitation. A copy of the national sanitation policy can be found here
http://www.pakistan.gov.pk/divisions/environment-division/media/Sanitation%20Policy.pdf