Overview
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who chaired a high-level meeting on Wednesday, ordered a federal Emergency Response Committee led by the planning minister to coordinate monsoon response with provincial authorities.
- The NDMA warned meeting participants that Pakistan faces prolonged heatwaves and above-normal rainfall in July and said contingency arrangements are being put in place.
- The planning committee will meet weekly and the finance minister was told to prepare advance arrangements for an emergency fund that can be mobilized for monsoon-related disasters.
- The prime minister directed immediate province-level reviews, removal of river and channel encroachments, and a comprehensive flood-management roadmap while noting an additional Rs330 billion this fiscal year for water projects.
- Shehbaz asked the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation to present a welfare roadmap for expatriates whose remittances underpin the economy and officials said protecting those inflows will help cushion households and public finances during extreme-weather shocks.