Islamabad: The federal government has begun formulating a National Resilience Plan 2025–2026 aimed at strengthening Pakistan’s preparedness for monsoon-related disasters and minimizing the destruction caused by floods, cloudbursts, glacial melts, and landslides.
At a meeting in Islamabad on Thursday, Federal Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Dr. Musadik Malik and National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Chairman Lt. Gen. Inam Haider Malik finalized a roadmap to improve disaster readiness, response, and recovery mechanisms.
Dr. Malik stressed that the new framework must be outcome-focused, ensuring practical strategies that directly reduce losses to human lives, infrastructure, crops, and livestock. “The National Resilience Plan must deliver tangible results for vulnerable communities,” he said.
The NDMA chairman underscored the importance of mapping Pakistan’s most at-risk regions and tailoring preparedness to localized hazards. “Floods, cloudbursts, glacial lake outburst floods, and landslides all require different responses. Preparing for these localized risks is essential for building resilience,” he noted.
Officials said the plan will seek to integrate fragmented systems, identify high-risk areas, and ensure faster, more coordinated relief operations to prevent a repeat of the devastation caused by the 2022 floods, which displaced millions and inflicted billions in damages.
Dr. Malik acknowledged weaknesses in the current disaster management setup, calling it scattered and slow. “It requires integration into a single, streamlined framework that is quick, coordinated, and effective,” he said, reaffirming the government’s commitment to working closely with NDMA and other stakeholders.
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