Tag: Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan: At least 18 Pakistanis, including 12 children, were killed in a bus fire as they journeyed home after fleeing catastrophic monsoon flooding, officials and rescue workers said Thursday ...

For many students, the floods have disrupted their education. At a makeshift school set up under tarp sheets near Malook Khaskheli, schoolteachers said that about half of the batch of ...

The Pakistani Taliban, known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), waged a years-long insurgency there that ended with a major military crackdown in 2014. But there has been a resurgence in ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is out of money to spend on recovery from recent devastating floods, its climate change minister said on Tuesday (Oct 4), urging prompt international help at the UN ...

GENEVA: The United Nations has revised up its humanitarian appeal for Pakistan five-fold to US$816 million from US$160 million as it seeks to control a surge in water-borne diseases following ...

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court on Monday (Oct 3) accepted an apology tendered by former prime minister Imran Khan and dropped a contempt of court case against him, his defence lawyer ...

"SECOND DISASTER" According to the health department of Sindh province, the worst-affected region, 17,285 cases of malaria have been confirmed since Jul 1. Anticipating the risk of disease outbreaks after ...

The rollover is related to the Paris club agreement in April 2020 to support 73 lower income countries during COVID-19, under which the US provided relief on US$128 million in ...

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court on Thursday (Sep 29) quashed the conviction of Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, in a corruption case that had seen her ...

KARACHI: A gunman posing as a dental patient shot and killed a dual national Chinese-Pakistani man working in a dental clinic in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on ...