ISLAMABAD: Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lieutenant General Inam Haider Malik expressed gratitude to visiting dignitary for gracious donation and financial commitments from Republic of Kazakhstan towards Prime Minister's Relief Fund. Ambassador of Republic of Kazakhstan called on Lt General Inam Haider Malik here, a news release said.

Both discussed necessity of continued support to flood affected people during impending winters. Chairman stressed on shared intellectual and administrative cooperation mechanism for investment in preparedness, greater than post disaster management. Two sides developed consensus on expanding capacity building of Pakistan's national efforts in floods 2022, whereas need to establish more bilateral and multilateral regional cooperation in disaster mitigation, awareness, preparedness and subsequently in relief, rescue and rehabilitation and reconstruction phases were also agreed.

Ambassador proposed that after initial online meeting between Minister of Emergency Response of Kazakhstan and Chairman NDMA, follow up high level delegates of Kazakhstan would plan visit to Pakistan and NDMA to explore further avenues of mutual cooperation.

Published in The Daily National Courier, November, 11 2022

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