Tag: Floods

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif Tuesday dubbed the ruinous floods as “the deadliest in the country’s history” with over 4,000 homes destroyed and thousands of people rendered homeless across central and northern Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD- Describing unprecedented rains an outcome of climatic change, Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Tuesday informed joint sitting of the Parliament...

QUETTA- Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti here Tuesday said that the provincial government has imposed flood emergency in the province. According to a statement,...

UNITED NATIONS- The United Nations stands ready to help Pakistan and India as the two South Asian countries struggle to provide relief to people affected...

ISLAMABAD — The death toll from floods in India and Pakistan has reached 400 as authorities warned of more flooding in the days ahead. The...

Sharif said that he was concerned about the people who were affected by floods and it was the responsibility of the State to take care of them

The expression of mutual concern has come after a sour episode last month when India cancelled high level talks with Pakistan over a meeting of Pakistani ambassador in New Delhi with Kashmiri leaders. Pakistan defended the meeting and said Kashmiri leaders were always consulted ahead of talks with India.

RAWALAKOT- Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Monday arrived here to get a first hand account of the devastation caused by the torrential rains and to speed...

ISLAMABAD-   Rescuers are battling to pull through thousands trapped by Pakistan's worst flooding in decades which has killed at least 195 people and has left...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed anguish at the loss of lives and property caused by the recent floods and offered assistance to...

BEIJING — F looding in southwestern China over the past week has left 44 people dead and 18 missing, and has caused massive damage to...

The deaths were reported from the Kot Lakhpat, Samanabad, Harbanspura, Sherakot, Badami Bagh, Daroghewala and Raiwind areas.

SRINAGAR — The death toll from severe flooding in Indian-held Kashmir rose to at least 39 on Friday, as overwhelmed local authorities requested help...

In the worst-affected districts of Surkhet, Bardiya and Dang, officials scrambled to provide clean drinking water kits to distraught villagers amid fears of a cholera outbreak.

Rescue-1122 on Monday expressed fear of flash-flood in low lying areas of the city if desilting and cleansing of Nullah Leh tributaries was not...

The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has devised a plan for preventing flood in Nullah Leh and other nullahs of the town. The citizens particularly...

USAID to rebuild 11 schools destroyed by floods in Sindh The earth-breaking of the first of eleven modern high schools to be built by the...