PM Shehbaz Visits Tianjin Center, Praises Chinese Expertise

News Desk

Islamabad: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday visited the National Earthquake Simulation Center at Tianjin University, where he praised China’s use of modern technology for disaster management.

The prime minister said the advanced methods being applied in China could greatly help Pakistan improve its capacity to deal with natural disasters.

“By benefiting from Chinese expertise, Pakistan will be able to adopt effective precautionary measures and strategies to better cope with natural disasters in the future,” the PM Office Media Wing quoted him as saying.

He stressed the need to further strengthen projects such as the International Medical Center and the China-Pakistan Joint Lab for Disaster Management, and called for enhanced bilateral cooperation in this field.

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Referring to the recent floods in Pakistan, the prime minister said the federal government had dispatched additional relief convoys for affected families in Narowal, Sialkot, Wazirabad, Hafizabad, Chiniot, and Jhang. These would be handed over to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA).

He directed the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to maintain close coordination with the Punjab government and ensure full support to provincial disaster management authorities. Relief operations for flood-affected families would continue, he added.

During his visit to the National Earthquake Simulation Center, the prime minister was briefed on disaster management technologies, including newly developed medical rescue vehicles and precautionary systems.

Officials informed him that several joint initiatives were already underway under China-Pakistan cooperation, including the China-Pakistan Joint Lab for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, the International Medical Cooperation Center, and the China-Pakistan Friendship Hospital.