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 […]
Four men of Pakistani or Afghan descent have been shot dead in the state since November. Albuquerque business owner Mula Akbar now carries a pistol most of the time after three Muslim men he knew were ambushed and killed in New Mexico’s largest city in the last 10 days. He said he and other members […]
The SpaceX Inspiration4 mission’s four newly minted citizen astronauts were set to splashdown in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida on Saturday, after a three-day voyage for the first all-civilian crew ever sent into Earth orbit. The SpaceX Crew Dragon ship conducted two rocket “burns” on Friday to lower its altitude and align the […]
British billionaire Richard Branson flew into space on Sunday aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel; a voyage he described as the “experience of a lifetime” ; Also, one he hopes will usher in an era of lucrative space tourism. “Congratulations to all our wonderful team at Virgin Galactic for 17 years of hard, hard work to […]
Tesla delivered 201,250 vehicles in the second quarter of 2021, the company reported. Also, The quarter’s deliveries fell slightly short of expectations. Analysts were projecting Tesla to deliver around 202,800 cars during this period, according to estimates compiled by FactSet as of July 1. Estimates ranged from 193,000 to 231,000 deliveries. Tesla shares were up about […]
A US military delegation will visit Ankara later this week to hold detailed consultations on a possible Turkish role to guard Kabul International Airport after the Nato withdrawal, a senior Turkish defence official said on Monday. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart Joe Biden agreed last week that Turkey would take a […]
“Absolutely not. There is no way we are going to allow any bases, any sort of action from Pakistani territory into Afghanistan. Absolutely not,” the prime minister told Axios on HBO in an interview. Moreover, In an excerpt of the interview, to be aired on Sunday, on the Axios website, furthermore, the interviewer Jonathan Swan […]
