Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA

summed up in the comprehensive overviews of the organizational
response and logistic support coordinated during relief and rescue
phase and the snapshot of the measures taken on graduation to
next phase for release of first tranche of the grant, pooling of public
and private resources on a massive scale, to minimize hardships
that had taken most by surprise but could have been far greater. As
regards structural side, initially notified by Cabinet Division under
Ordinance XL of 2006, without derogation to pre-existing laws,
issued in pursuance of Article 144 resolutions by Provincial
Assemblies of Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and the Punjab,
later extended by re-promulgation as Ordinance XV of 7 th April,
2007 expired on 6 th August, 2007. On 03 rd October, 2007, the
NDMA was to be resurrected by Ordinance LIII of 2007, enforced
w.e.f. 17 th August, 2007 but the NDMA was never notified as such
under the said law. The Ordinance was one of the temporary laws
allowed transient extension by the Hon’ble Court on 30 th July, 2009
in Sindh High Court Bar Association case. Another Ordinance was
issued in 2009 before its eventual conversion into an Act of
Parliament in December 2010, also enforced w.e.f. 17 th August
2007, with one change from the Ordinance: Unlike the Ordinance
notified without derogation of existing laws, this Act was given an
overriding effect over other laws. The Ordinance contemplated a
three-tier inter-Provincial hierarchical framework under a unified
National Commission, headed by the Prime Minister, on which
Provincial Chief Ministers and key Cabinet Ministers and Chairman
Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee were given berths. The NDMA at
the apex was attached to Prime Minister’s Secretariat; its
secretariat was to be headed by a whole time Chairman and ex-
officio Secretary of the Commission. The law obligated Gazette
Notifications for the establishment of National Disaster
Management Commission under the Prime Minister (Section 3),
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