Relief and desperation in Pakistan’s makeshift flood camps
NOWSHERA, Pakistan: Makeshift camps have sprung up all over Pakistan - in schools, along motorways and at military bases - to give shelter to millions of displaced flood victims. But ...
NOWSHERA, Pakistan: Makeshift camps have sprung up all over Pakistan - in schools, along motorways and at military bases - to give shelter to millions of displaced flood victims. But ...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will consider importing vegetables from arch-rival India to mitigate floods fallout, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said on Monday (Aug 29), as food prices have risen significantly. "We can ...
ISLAMABAD: Early estimates put the damage from Pakistan's deadly floods at more than US$10 billion, its planning minister said on Monday (Aug 29), adding that the world has an obligation ...
'Everything is destroyed': Pakistan flood survivors plead for aid
NEW DELHI: Floods in Pakistan have killed more than 1,000 people after what its climate change minister called a record unbroken cycle of monsoon rains with "eight weeks of non-stop ...
EXTREME WEATHER IS "THE NEW NORMAL" "These individual events fit a pattern of increasing extreme events due to climate change," said Professor Matthias Roth from the Department of Geography at ...
SUKKUR: A huge relief operation was under way on Monday (Aug 29) and international aid began trickling in as Pakistan struggled to deal with monsoon flooding that has affected more ...
MINGORA: Thousands of people living near flood-swollen rivers in Pakistan's north were ordered to evacuate Saturday (Aug 27) as the death toll from devastating monsoon rains neared 1,000 with no ...
FROM DROUGHT TO FLOODS Earlier this year much of the nation was in the grip of a drought and heatwave, with temperatures hitting 51 degrees Celsius in Jacobabad, Sindh province. ...
POLITICAL HISTORY The country has a history of those in power using the police and courts to stifle their political opponents, and Prime Minister Sharif has several pending cases brought ...