Tag: Pakistan floods

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s first visit China, since he took office in April this year, is fraught with challenges. His two-day visit starting November 1 comes at a time when Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has launched a long march against the federal government. With Pakistan’s economy ...

After a catastrophic monsoon season, families who have already lost everything face a host of unseen dangers. UNICEF is providing lifesaving supplies and assistance.Rising floodwaters forced Nazira and her children out of their home in Balochistan Province, Pakistan. © UNICEF/UN0712731/d'Aki By Catherine Weibel JAFARABAD, Pakistan – From a distance, ...

ISLAMABAD —  The United States said Thursday it would give an additional $30 million in humanitarian aid to Pakistan to support victims of recent catastrophic flooding in the South Asian nation. It brings the total disaster-related assistance from Washington to Islamabad this year to $97 million. U.S. Ambassador Donald ...

Islamabad: In the aftermath of the devastating floods in Pakistan, health facilities are reporting alarming levels of severe acute malnutrition among children in affected areas, UNICEF has warned. More than 1 in 9 children under five admitted to health facilities in flood-affected areas of Sindh and Balochistan were ...

Across Pakistan this summer, flooding has displaced close to 8 million people and affected 33 million, including hundreds of thousands of pregnant women. VOA Urdu Service reporter Sidra Dar visited a medical camp in southern Pakistan's Sindh province, where pregnant women from some of the worst-hit areas in the ...

#Pakistan News Turkish and Pakistani humanitarian relief agencies continue their efforts months after devastating floods hit several regions in Pakistan. Nestled on the northern outskirt of Dadu district in Pakistan, a housing facility set up by Türkiye's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has been a temporary home for ...

An IMF team is expected to visit Pakistan early in November to start the next review of the country’s current economic programme, a senior official of the global lending body has said. In its last review in August, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved the 7th and 8th tranches ...

Washington: Amid reports of massive corruption and looting of US relief aid in Pakistan, Washington on Tuesday said this is something it takes very seriously, not only in Pakistan but anywhere around the world where American taxpayer dollars are implicated. "This is something we take very seriously, not ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's health ministry on Tuesday approved the purchase of over 6 million mosquito nets from India, as the country scrambles to contain the spread of malaria and other vector-borne diseases due to the unprecedented floods, according to a media report on Tuesday. The World Health Organisation (WHO) is ...

The recent floods have exhausted Pakistan’s ability to meet its international climate commitments. Pakistan’s policy trade-offs have become a painful paradox: the more the government spends to help the flood-affected communities, the less resources it is left with to meet its climate mitigation and adaptation obligations made under the ...