Tag: Flood
Flood affectees get new houses in Layyah
The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Saturday handed over another 50 houses to the flood affectees of Basti Pir Baksh (District Layyah)...
In flood-hit zones, health & nutrition status ALARMING
The health status of the population hit by monsoon rains and flooding in Sindh is deteriorating and outbreaks of malaria, diarrhoea, respiratory infections, cholera,...
Flood-hit Sindh says Centre yet to fulfil financial commitments
Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, leader of the House in the Sindh Assembly, complained on Tuesday that while his resource-constrained government had so...
For flood survivors, Centre’s attitude as cold as winter
More than six months have passed since the monsoon flood ravaged the southern part of the Sindh province, but 1.5 million survivors in the...
Wozniacki, Azarenka in Thai flood fundraiser
World number one Caroline Wozniacki has arrived in Thailand for a charity tennis match against Victoria Azarenka to raise money for the country's recent...
‘Audit dewatering machinery for future floods’
Advising the provincial government to carry out audits of machinery and pumps recently deployed by different departments for dewatering floodwaters in Sindh, President Asif...
Across Sindh, hunger brings rising death toll in camps of flood...
The increasing situation of food insecurity has begun another mass catastrophe in thousands of camps, especially in eight worst affected districts of Sindh, revealed...
Spain to assist flood victims
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and Islamic Relief, a humanitarian and development organisation, have signed an agreement worth €1million (PKR 118,382,000)...
AIOU donates Rs 2.3 million to flood victims
Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Nazir Ahmed Sangi presented a cheque worth Rs 23,00,000 to Senate Chairman Farooq H Naek for...
Philippines flood toll exceeds 1,000
More than a thousand people are dead or missing after flash floods that ravaged the southern Philippines, the government said Tuesday as cities prepared...
Flood-hit areas will be reconstructed as committed: PM
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday said the flood-hit areas would be reconstructed and developed per the commitment of the government.
He was responding...
Rotting relief goods
Our friendly country Thailand stands out for its donation of rice, around ten thousand tonnes, for the last year’s super flood victims in the...
‘Sluggish response to flood disaster worrying’
Representatives of leading national and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), donor organisations, civil society groups and the media have expressed serious concern over the sluggish...
Millions flood Iraq’s Karbala for Ashura
Millions flooded Iraq’s shrine city Karbala on Tuesday for Ashura rituals on Shiite Islam’s most important day, amid tight security after bomb attacks targeting...
Most of southern Sindh still under water: study
Most parts of southern Sindh that inundated due to monsoon flood in August are still under water, revealed a joint study of the United...
More ‘chills’ in store for flood survivors
While this winter is predicted to be severe in southern Sindh due to standing water following August’s devastating monsoon flood in the region, thousands...
34pc of Sindh’s flooded areas still under water: WFP
The fact that around 34 percent of Sindh’s flooded areas are still inundated suggests a high level of food insecurity in the province, the...
