The Prime Minister tells local governments and disaster teams to work better together during the rainy season.
BY Mahnoor | 15-07-2026
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met the head of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Lieutenant General Inam Haider Malik, on Wednesday to talk about getting ready for monsoon rains in the country.
In a post on X, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said that PM Shehbaz told the chairman to work better with provincial governments and their disaster management teams during the rains.
The PM Office says PM Shehbaz was told about plans for monsoon rain emergencies. He was also updated on setting up the early warning system and working with the Climate Change Ministry.
Earlier this month, PM Shehbaz ordered a federal emergency team. He also told Climate Change Minister Musadik Malik and the NDMA chairman to visit all provinces, AJK, and G-B to check readiness for the monsoon.
The meetings happened after Pakistan’s weather department said a new rainy season would start in the first week of July. The department said a weather system from the west would likely enter the northern parts of the country from June 30, while moist air from the Arabian Sea kept coming into the eastern and central parts.
The department warned that the weather could damage things like solar panels, electric poles, and billboards. It also said there could be landslides in risky areas of upper Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Kashmir.
It also warned about quick flooding in cities like Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Nowshera, Sialkot, Narowal, Gujranwala, Lahore, and Faisalabad, and told people to stay careful.
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