The Chairman of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Lieutenant General Inam Haider Malik, said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir have directed “full-out support” for cyclone victims in Sri Lanka. The NDMA Chairman spoke to the media before sending off the Pakistan Urban Search and Rescue Team to cyclone-affected areas in Sri Lanka. Malik termed the disaster a “very significant event in the recent past”. He continued, “We, the peopl

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has completed preparations to send the first consignment of 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Palestine including Gaza, according to a press release. The first aid flight will depart from Islamabad Airport this evening, while Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Chairman NDMA Lieutenant General Inam Haider Malik will be the chief guests at the departure ceremony. The NDMA stated that the 100-ton consignment of aid, consisting