Nadeem Ahmad , ( Urdu : نديم احمد ; HI ( M ) , SE , TBt ) , is a now-retired senior three-star rank general officer who is famed and widely honored for planning and coordinating the relief and reconstruction non-combatant military operations after the devastating earthquake of October 2005 . Securing the appointment as the director of Federal Relief Commission of Pakistan Army , his credentials secured him the directorship of the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority ( ERRA ) . After serving in the military for nearly 40 years , he was duly appointed as the chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority ( NDMA ) ; his efforts included the successful diasaster management and preparations to contain the nationwide 2010 floods and coordinate the rescue operations in the Hunza Valley , Attabad Lake , and the Airblue crash
Airblue crash
Airblue Flight 202
Nadeem Ahmad