Honorable Prime Minister of Islamic Republic of Pakistan inaugurated the newly established state of the art National Emergencies Operation Center (NEOC) at NDMA Headquarters. This will serve as hub of all technological inputs related to climate change, disasters management and predictive modeling 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 intensity. It would generate coordinated response, guiding lower tiers of provincial and district level disaster management authorities.

The need was felt for a platform which should perform the functions for developing a national collage of disasters monitoring, high end technology driven capability. It can estimate vulnerable areas needs and determine the gap to be pre-coordinated support from global partner through all time ready holistic national outlook in the form of real time National Common Operating Picture.

Chairman NDMA, Lieutenant General Inam Haider Malik, conducted the briefing session for the Chief Guest PM Pakistan and Ambassadors, UN organizations’ country heads, lead global NGOs, Pak academia lead institutional and experts showcasing the exceptional national capacity. He presented key lessons from Pakistan’s extensive exposures to disaster and national emergencies in past and new NDMA vision or pro-active management of disasters through NEOC. The vision was principally approved by Prime Minister’s Office and all national stakeholders of disasters response.

The ceremony was attended by national and international dignitaries who appreciated Pakistan government in establishing a high-end outcome, fast-paced development of NEOC in record time and the swath of multilateral utility it promises of mutual growth and protection of strategic investments.