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 […]
Russia has launched week-long military drills involving forces from China and other nations, an exercise that shows growing defence cooperation between Moscow and Beijing as they both face tensions with the United States. The large-scale manoeuvres also seem to be intended to demonstrate that Russia has sufficient military might for enormous drills even as its […]
Pro-Taliban imam among the dozens dead and wounded in a suicide attack on the Guzargah Mosque in western Herat city. A blast outside a mosque in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan on Friday killed a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric as well as civilians, police said. “Eighteen people were martyred in the incident and 23 […]
Ranveer Singh set the Internet ablaze with his nude photoshoot. After all the controversy, the Simbaa star is finally addressing the ‘scandal’. Talking about his nude photoshoot for Paper Magazine, the Ram Leela actor shared how he didn’t anticipate the photoshoot creating such an uproar. ETimes reported him saying that he added that he had not uploaded […]
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 […]
Imran raised Rs500m in fundraising telethon Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) held a global telethon donation on (Monday) 29 August at 9:30 pm for Pakistan flood victims. On Saturday 27 August, Imran Khan, while addressing a public gathering in Jhelum, said he would help the flood-hit people but would not stop his campaign for real freedom. […]
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 […]
Wednesday marks six months since the Kremlin launched its invasion of Ukraine. As Russia bombs its neighbor, what has become the biggest European war since 1945 has had an outsized impact far south, in the Middle East. A volatile region with an array of existing problems, the Middle East was no exception to the disruptions brought on by the […]
Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamed al-Thani meets with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Doha, Qatar August 24, 2022. Qatar’s Emiri Diwan Wednesday confirmed that the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) aims to invest $3 billion in Pakistan. Qatar is lending support to the South Asian nation’s insolvent economy. “The Qatar Investment Authority announced its […]
