Islamabad, Pakistan – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed for “massive” global support for Pakistan where unprecedented floods have killed nearly 1,400 people and made more than a million people homeless. Guterres made the appeal as he landed in the Pakistani capital early on Friday morning and was received by Hina Rabbani Khar, the state minister for […]
Onion and tomato, much in use in our cooking, witnessed a massive rise in prices in recent weeks as flash floods washed away entire crops, thereby compounding the food emergency situation in the country. To deal with this crisis, the government decided to issue permits for imports from neighbouring countries to minimise the transport time […]
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has expressed gratitude through a series of tweets. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has thanked Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Czech Republic for their support to the people affected by floods in Pakistan. In a series of tweets, the Prime Minister thanked Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman for ordering relief goods for the flood victims […]
Says thousands of km of highways, millions of livestock affected, and over a million houses damaged(flood damage). The Senate Standing Committee on Planning was apprised by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Friday that the devastating floods had affected 5,063 kilometers of highways and 243,733,488 livestock as well as damaged more than 1.17 million […]
As Pakistan’s inflation, which just hit a 47-year-high in August at over 27 per cent, is on an upward curve, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned against protests and instability in the country. Socio-political pressures are expected to remain high and could also weigh on policy and reform implementation, IMF says As Pakistan’s inflation, […]
Pakistan is home to more glaciers than anywhere in the world outside the polar regions, but as the climate warms, it’s becoming more vulnerable to sudden outbursts of melting glacier water that have the power to bring widespread destruction to its people. The country’s chief meteorologist has warned that this year alone, Pakistan has seen […]
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to give a major relief to the university students in flood-affected areas including fee waivers and scholarships, Education Minister Rana Tanveer Hussain said Wednesday, 31 August. The decision comes following a meeting with the chairman Higher Education Commission and other officials of the ministry for devising a strategy to […]
Striking new satellite images that reveal the extent of Pakistan’s record flooding show how an overflowing Indus River has turned part of Sindh Province into a 100 kilometer-wide inland lake. Swaths of the country are now underwater, and it is described as a “monsoon on steroids” brought the heaviest rainfall in living memory and flooding […]
Balochistan, the country`s area-wise largest province of Pakistan, is faced with an electricity crisis in these flash floods. A power supply of 220kV has been stopped from Uch-Sibi transmission line to the province on Thursday, August 26 afternoon, the Quetta Electric Supply Company (QESCO) spokesperson said. Due to the suspension of 220kV from the Sibbi […]
Pakistan is racing to prevent further loss of life as it reels from one of its worst climate disasters with floodwater threatening to cover up to a third of the country of 220 million people by the end of the monsoon season. Climate change minister Sherry Rehman said Sunday the unprecedented rain had created […]
