Tag: Asia

Floods triggered by heavy rains continued to wreak havoc in South Asia, the one of the world's most densely populated geographical regions, pummeling countries that have already been battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the monsoon season began, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Nepal are among those being affected ...

Earlier this month, the long-simmering tensions between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia came to a boil when Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi publicly criticised the kingdom for its perceived lack of support for Islamabad's interests in the disputed Kashmir region. During a televised interview on August 4, Qureshi said ...

Pakistan has one of the worst records in the world for enforced disappearances. Rights groups say thousands of political activists and human rights workers have been taken against their will and held in secret. Al Jazeera has spoken to a woman whose father was seized by armed men last ...

A court in Pakistan has sentenced to prison three leaders of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an organisation accused by India and the United States of masterminding the 2008 attack in Mumbai. The sentencing on Saturday, which was not related to the Mumbai attack itself, came ahead of a September deadline for Pakistan ...

Government forces have fired shotgun pellets and tear gas to disperse hundreds of mainly Shia Muslims participating in a Muharram procession in Indian-administered Kashmir, injuring dozens, witnesses have said. The violence came as the disputed Himalayan region - where nearly 97 percent of residents are Muslims - observed Ashoura on Saturday, the ...

"I had to walk for nearly five hours to reach home from my workplace. It was raining heavily and I had to wrap a plastic bag around my mobile phone and other electronic gadgets," Saad Ahmed Shah, a senior executive at a financial organization in Karachi, told DW. "Some ...

Families and rescue workers are searching through the wreckage for survivors. Source link

Islamabad, Pakistan - At least 13 people have been killed by urban flooding in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, the country's largest city and its commercial hub, as torrential monsoon rains have left large parts of the metropolis inundated and without electricity, officials said. Those killed include people who ...

India is struggling to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, with its total number of cases having now surged past the three million mark. It is the third-worst affected country hit by the virus after the United States and Brazil. But, for the past three weeks, the South ...

Vehicles wade through a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains in Karachi on Aug. 27. Photographer: Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images Photographer: Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images Flash floods caused by unprecedented monsoon rains have engulfed large parts of Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi, shutting down businesses, shops and markets.Pakistan ...