Overview

• Authorities were told to complete crop and infrastructure loss assessments on an emergency basis with a comprehensive report due within a week.
• Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal will strictly monitor relief and rehabilitation operations, and NDMA must fully support provincial disaster agencies to speed field coordination.
• The National Highway Authority was ordered to rapidly repair the breached M-5 section near Jalalpur Pirwala as the communications secretary and NHA chair carry out a full site assessment.
• Health officials were directed to prevent waterborne disease outbreaks and to promote appropriate crop planting to support recovery.
• Officials reported more than 4.7 million people affected and about 350,000 returning home from camps, alongside heavy livestock losses across river-belt districts.