ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal said that coordinated efforts between federal and provincial governments and all concerned institutions helped in mitigating flood damages. Addressing National Flood Response Coordination Centre (NFRCC) function here, he said flood damages could have been much more, however, collaboration and coordinated efforts helped in evading huge tragedy.

Appreciating NFRCC’s role, he said that world was pleasantly surprised over how Pakistan handled such huge calamity with less human loss. He said capability and coordination for disaster management under umbrella of NFRCC played great role in helping country to cope with challenge. “This shows power of collaboration,” he said adding no matter how great challenge, if we have ability of collaborating, we can handle every challenge.

He said that efforts of all three services, provinces, private sector, humanitarian organisations, civil society and friends of Pakistan were positively synergised and it had huge impact in mitigating losses. He thanked all concerned people on behalf of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for hard work and efforts they had put in during recent floods.

He said that NFRCC was created for specific purpose of emergency response and it has successfully completed its mission and has now been dissolved. He said challenges were still there however it would be dealt with new format and institutional setting with provinces adding relevant departments that would monitor all rehabilitation and reconstruction effort that is going on. Government prepared framework for making Pakistan climate-resilient country adding framework would be presented before international community.

Published in The Daily National Courier, December, 06 2022

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