Islamabad (HRNW) Federal Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman has told a Senate panel that the government intends to raise funds internationally to deal with Glacial Lake Outbursts Flood (GLOF) incidents in the northern parts of the country.
The Senate Standing Committee on Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan discussed the status of Glacial Lake Outbursts Floods (GLOF) in relation with the latest incident in Skardu, where two bridges were swept away following a glacial outburst.
The panel reviewed measures taken by the government to curb such incidents, in a meeting chaired by Senator Sajid Mir on Friday at the Parliament House.
Climate Change Minister Senator Sherry Rehman, Senator Falak Naz, Senator Irfan Ul Haq Siddiqui, Senator Muhammad Qasim, Senator Shahadat Awan, and senior officers of the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) also attended the meeting.
Speaking about the recent GLOF incident in Skardu, the climate change minister stressed the need to step up measures to deal with this issue head-on.
She asked Advisor to Prime Minister on Kashmir Affairs and GB, Qamar Zaman Kaira to prepare a PC1 (Principal Component 1) for the problem so that the Ministry of Climate Change may strive to secure foreign funds from international bodies for this purpose.
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