Overview

• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif directed emergency damage assessments with a comprehensive report due within a week to guide relief and reconstruction.
• He tasked Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal with close oversight of operations and told the NDMA chairman to fully support provincial disaster authorities.
• He ordered urgent restoration of the flood-damaged M-5 Motorway near Jalalpur Pirwala and instructed the communications secretary and NHA chairman to inspect the site.
• Health authorities were told to guard against waterborne disease, with guidance to promote suitable crop choices in inundated agricultural areas.
• Officials reported more than 4.7 million people affected, including 2.6 million directly, over 2.1 million livestock lost, 27 districts and 4,794 villages hit, and about 350,000 people returning home as aid continues.