* Pakistan is among 23 countries which are facing drought emergencies over the past two years, according to the report released by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. link* The report stated that 23 countries including Pakistan have experienced drought emergencies in the last ...

Spencer Cox, the governor of the US state of Utah, has appealed to the public to join in the collective prayer for rain during the recent drought and said that only God can help us now. According to media reports, Governor Spencer Cox said in a video message on Twitter that the situation has ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is going to see severe droughts and flooding in the next few years thanks to the rapidly changing climate conditions and global warming. Environmental experts are asking for an aggressive plantation drive to avoid the looming catastrophe. According to an esteemed ...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF - Nooruddin watched helplessly as his flock of 100 sheep began to die from hunger and thirst on the dry drought-ravaged hillsides of Balkh province. Rather than let more of the prized creatures die a slow death on the dry hillsides of Balkh province in the north, he made the ...

ISLAMABAD - Water is our best friend and also our worst enemy," muses Allah Dino as he sits by his well. "For most of the year, we are in a state of drought. Our fields are dry and our cattle struggle to survive. We wait patiently for the rainy season to bring us water in the *nullah* (hill ...

Shahapur - As Gajanand Dukre parks the water tanker in a drought-stricken Indian village, dozens of locals -- mostly women in saris -- come running with jerry cans, buckets and stainless steel pots. Over the next two hours Dukre helps them empty the 12,000-litre (3,170-gallon) tank, providing a ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan is facing the 10th consecutive year of flood and 4th consecutive year of drought which endorsed the fact that water has become a frontline issue for the countries’ like Pakistan. Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University Dean Dr Adil Najam remarked ...

The National Assembly was informed today the government has decided to forcefully raise Kashmir dispute as a humanitarian issue at the international level in order to unmask the Indian abuses in the occupied territory. Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs Andleeb Abbass told the house during ...

ISLAMABAD The National Assembly on Friday passed a resolution demanding that all the drought stricken districts of Balochistan be declared as calamity affected. The resolution was moved by Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan. The resolution noted that the people of ...

QUETTA - Home Minister Balochistan, Mir Ziaullah Lango has said that miseries, and losses suffered by the drought stricken people are matter of great concern to the government. He was talking to the officials of Provincial Disaster Management Authority on the occasion of his visit to the PDMA’s ...