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 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 ...

NEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday expressed sympathy for the Pakistan flood victims as his neighboring country faced widespread destruction and lost more than 1,000 lives. In a tweet from official Twitter, the Indian premier expressed sadness over the floods in Pakistan and ...

ISLAMABAD – Death toll from the floods across the country have crossed 1,000, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) reported on Saturday night. According to the NDMA’s data, 1,033 people died while 1,527 sustained injuries since June 14 from the rains and floods. During the past ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday briefed ambassadors, high commissioners and senior members of diplomatic corps to sensitize them about ‘scale of human tragedy’ as flooding claimed over 900 lives across Pakistan since mid-June. The National Disaster Management Authority ...