ISLAMABAD-:Pakistan due to its geographical location and terrain is a disaster prone country where it has become most vulnerable to devastating impacts of climate change in the next 50 to 80 years as the mean temperature in Norther Areas was projected to increase by 6°C.The new research ...

ISLAMABAD - The engine of flight PK-650, en route from Lahore to Islamabad, malfunctioned and shut down after reportedly ingesting a foreign object. The pilot switched the engine off and landed the plane safely. There were 38 passengers onboard besides the PIA staff, all of whom remained unhurt ...

Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi says Pakistan remains vulnerable to climate change and in the past four decades 90 percent natural disasters it faced can be attributed to climate change. This she stated while talking to UN Secretary General's Special Envoy on ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said the government was cognizant of increased intensity and frequency of natural disasters and assured allocation of resources for implementation of National Disaster Risk Reduction Policy and National Disaster Management Plan. In his message on ...

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Minister for Finance Dr. Shamshad Akhtar has stressed the need for effective mechanism to mitigate losses caused by natural disasters.  Addressing a function in Islamabad today, she said Pakistan has faced various disasters including earthquakes and floods. The Minister ...

BEIJING - The recently inaugurated Neelam-Jhelum Hydropower project has experienced four major natural disasters during its construction in the past ten years, Feng Xinglong, Chairman of China’s Gezhouba Group said. Feng, in an interview with Chinese website ‘Sina.com’ published on Wednesday, ...

UNITED NATIONS: China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned at the United Nations on Friday against military action to respond to the threat from North Korea's missile and nuclear programs. "The use of force does not solve differences and will only lead to bigger disasters," Wang told the Security ...

LAHORE – Two planes of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) escaped accidents as one jet’s tyre got burst while other’s windscreen was broken.According to media reports, the windscreen of PIA aircraft PK 751, going from Lahore to Oslo, cracked. Engineer asked for eight hours to replace the ...

TEHRAN: (APP) Two trains collided and caught fire Friday in a remote region of northern Iran, killing more than 30 people and injuring dozens more, in one of the country's worst rail disasters.Provincial governor Mohammad Reza Khabbaz told state television that the crash took place in Semnan ...

LAHORE: (APP) Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah has said that climate change and natural disasters expose the vulnerable segments of society, including women and children, to human traffickers.READ MORE:  LHC CJ addresses meeting on working of Special CourtsAddressing the ...