PM inaugurates NEOC at NDMA.

Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-HaqKakar on Thursday inaugurated the newly established state-of-the-art National Emergencies Operation Center (NEOC) established at the National Disaster Management Authority Headquarters, to help in coordinated efforts to manage the natural disasters in the future.

The NEOC would also help in disaster risk reduction and mitigation of damages.

Lauding the establishment of NEOC, Anwaar-ul-HaqKakar emphasized the importance of disaster resilient infrastructure and policy framework. He said that despite being one of the least contributors of carbon emissions globally, Pakistan was one of the top countries affected by climate change.

'Climate change is a real challenge that will keep haunting our future generations unless we take such concrete steps', he reiterated.

The prime minister also praised the coordinated efforts of all state institutions during the devastating floods of 2022, especially NDMA. 'Nearly one third of the population of the country was affected by floods in 2022 and USD 30 billion was estimated to be the economic losses.

He said that the world needed to step forward and help devel

oping countries like Pakistan to cope up the adverse effects of climate change', he said. He also praised the role of NCOC both in Covid-19 and 2022 floods.

In a briefing, Prime Minister Kakar was told that NEOC would serve as hub of all technological inputs related to climate change, disasters management and predictive modelling for national emergencies. First of its kind in Pakistan and the region, this is Pakistan's indigenously conceptualized capability, which will evolve capacity to predict future disasters with credence and accuracy about likely locations, time of impact and damage...