The increasing electricity prices across the country have not only caused distress among urban residents but have also resulted in higher production costs for industrialists. According to experts, recent unchecked increases in electricity bills, along with other factors, can be attributed ...

ISLAMABAD – A team of Pakistani engineers working with the United Nations Missions in South Sudan are now reinforcing hundreds of kilometres of dykes they built some two years ago to save communities in the Unity State from the relentless floods and leaching mud, the UN said. When the water ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Wednesday stopped his party workers to show resistance against the expected 'police operation today as he is willing to offer his arrest to avoid any bloodshed at Zaman Park. Imran Khan addressed the nation online on Wednesday evening and ...

A third plane of Pakistan has reached the city of Adana in Turkey with relief goods and a rescue team. The Foreign Office spokesperson said Pakistan stood by its Turkish brothers and sisters in that difficult time. Meanwhile, the second C-130 aircraft of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) also left for ...

Pakistan will ask international lenders for billions of dollars worth of new loans to rebuild the country after calamitous floods uprooted 33mn people and pushed its cash-strapped economy even closer to insolvency, reported Financial Times link. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad was ...

NEW YORK – The United Nations General Assembly on Friday passed a resolution, calling for increased global financial support after massive floods killed more than 1,700 people in Pakistan. The resolution, passed by consensus in the 193-member body, emphasized the necessity to help the flood-hit ...

Hollywood star and humanitarian Angelina Jolie has said the flood disaster in Pakistan should be a "wake-up call" for the world. Explaining the severe trauma, Jolie took to her Instagram and shared her experience of visiting the flood-hit areas in the country. Sharing some pictures from her ...

BEIJING: Hours after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Pakistan to seek debt relief from China so that it can more quickly recover from the floods devastations, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin on Tuesday said that his country was doing all it can to help ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday thanked Special UN Envoy Angelina Jolie and other unsung heroes on behalf of Pakistan for becoming voice of millions of people suffering from devastation caused by floods. Taking to Twitter, the premier wrote: “Pakistan thanks Angelina ...

ISLAMABAD – The death toll from destructive floods caused by record monsoon rains in Pakistan rose to 1,260 as dozens more died in the last 24 hours, the disaster authority said. Officials reported 57 more deaths, 25 of them children while the safety of tens of thousands are at risk after the ...