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Floods to drag up to 9 million Pakistanis into poverty: World Bank

Report says Pakistan's poverty rate is expected to rise between 2.5 and 4 percentage points

Published 07 Oct, 2022 12:06am

We will be ready to cultivate crop by end of November: Bilawal

Says Pakistan suffers $30bn loss due to rains, floods

Published 06 Oct, 2022 06:49pm

UN hikes flash appeal to $816mn to support Pakistan’s flood victims

Revised appeal is made on the basis of an updated on-ground need assessment

Published 04 Oct, 2022 06:06pm

Karachi trains finally back on track

Minister wants to use railway land for commercial purpopses to recoup losses

Updated 04 Oct, 2022 04:01pm

Rains cause devastation across Pakistan

Flooding in cities, farm lands, river banks and low-lying rural areas

Updated 04 Oct, 2022 10:48am

Police latest spoiler as Sindh LG polls face another delay

Tells Sindh Home Department it is short of over 16,000 cops

Updated 03 Oct, 2022 08:32pm

Int’l inflation, floods minimize economic outlook for FY2023

Trade deficit in goods and services declined marginally in July as both exports and imports gained strength

Published 30 Sep, 2022 05:51pm

PM highlighted climate change impacts on Pakistan in UNGA effectively: Tarar

SAPM criticizes the harassment of Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb

Published 27 Sep, 2022 06:26pm

Time to do hectic relief work, not hold rallies: PM

Premier also visited the medical camp set up for the flood-affected people

Published 27 Sep, 2022 05:16pm

FM Bilawal urges world to provide adequate assistance to climate-hit countries

Says Pakistan has suffered massively by global warming in wake of devastating floods

Published 23 Sep, 2022 10:53pm

Pakistani ‘sins’ caused the floods, survey finds

Three out of five Pakistanis clueless about climate change

Published 23 Sep, 2022 02:40pm

‘All hell to break loose’ warns PM Shehbaz over world’s inadequate response on floods

Pakistan urges European leaders, others for debt relief

Updated 23 Sep, 2022 04:23pm

Pakistan has lost crops worth half a trillion during rains, floods this year

Sindh biggest loser among provinces; cotton crops worth Rs239 billion destroyed

Published 22 Sep, 2022 05:01pm

Joe Biden urges world to help Pakistan

US president annouces over $2.9 billion in new assistance to address global food insecurity

Published 22 Sep, 2022 03:12pm

There is no doctor here, flood victim says at Karachi camp

Skin diseases are spreading

Updated 22 Sep, 2022 09:01am

Death toll from Pakistan floods rises to 1,569 as 10 more die

Total of 12,860 people have been injured

Published 20 Sep, 2022 10:09pm

Canadian-Sikh doctor joins flood relief efforts in Quetta

Sets up camp of 400 tents, distributes rations and supplies

Published 20 Sep, 2022 08:55pm

Gastroenteritis, malaria kill 9 more people in Pakistan floods aftermath

Diseases spread killed 318 since July 1

Published 20 Sep, 2022 04:31pm

Children main victims as water-borne diseases claim 15 more lives in Sindh

One girl died of hunger at a camp for flood refugees in Sehwan

Updated 19 Sep, 2022 03:30pm

Pakistan will ‘absolutely not’ default on debt despite floods: Miftah Ismail

Says most stabilisation policies and targets are still on track

Published 19 Sep, 2022 12:03am

Sindh reports majority deaths as flood death toll at 1,545

Thirty-two casualties in Sindh, five in Balochistan in last 24 hours: NDMA

Published 17 Sep, 2022 09:26pm

Video: Crocodile rescued from Nawabshah floodwaters taken to sanctuary

Seven-feet long crocodile's presence creates panic among villagers

Published 17 Sep, 2022 08:57pm

Video: It’s raining hailstones in Dera Ismail Khan

Hailstones were not large enough to cause serious damage

Published 17 Sep, 2022 06:21pm

Children, women prone to diseases in Pakistan’s stagnant flood water

Death toll from the inundation surpassed 1,500

Published 17 Sep, 2022 12:28am

Clashes feared as intended cut on RD 211 brings flood-hit people against each other

Police stand as a boundary wall against two groups on Thar Coal Road in Badin; Traffic from Badin to Tharparkar has been suspended

Updated 17 Sep, 2022 02:21pm

Tough times ahead at tandoors with flour panic buying

Naan and roti hitting Rs30

Published 16 Sep, 2022 04:10pm

Death toll from Pakistan’s catastrophic flooding surges to 1,481

Sindh is the worst-hit region where 638 people are killed

Published 14 Sep, 2022 12:11am

World in ‘wrong direction’ as climate impacts worsen: UN

They pointed to Pakistan's monumental floods and China's crop-withering heatwave this year as examples of what to expect

Published 13 Sep, 2022 10:29pm

PM Shehbaz says no to medicine price hike

Health ministry had proposed the increase

Published 13 Sep, 2022 05:14pm

Rupee continues to slide due to rising demand for import payments: Miftah

Says the country will have to face major revenue loss due to crop losses

Updated 04 Oct, 2022 09:37am