Pakistan
UN warns world is entering ‘uncharted territories of destruction’ from climate crisis
Boys, victims of the flood, reach out for food from a relief worker, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Nowshera, Pakistan August 30, 2022. Fayaz Aziz | Reuters The United Nations is warning that the impacts of global climate change are entering “uncharted territories of destruction” as countries fail to set adequate […]
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Pakistan is bearing the brunt of the climate crisis even with ‘small carbon footprint,’ minister states
Pakistan is dealing with the worst implications of the climate disaster thanks in aspect to the actions of the created entire world, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said, as the region battles the worst floods in its background. “Pakistan is 1 of the worst-afflicted international locations by climate change. We have, as you know, a really, […]
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‘Overwhelming’ floods prompt Pakistan international minister to request for IMF, global assist
Pakistani families wade floodwaters in the southern part of the country on Sunday. The death toll from flooding there has surpassed 1,000. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Visuals Pakistan desires money enable to deal with “too much to handle” floods, its international minister mentioned on Sunday, introducing that he hoped fiscal institutions such […]
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Pakistan floods power tens of hundreds from houses overnight
Flood afflicted girls make bread for their family beside damaged mud properties just after heavy monsoon rains in Jaffarabad district, Balochistan province, on August 28, 2022. Fida Hussain | Afp | Getty Photographs Tens of 1000’s of people fled their properties in northern Pakistan on Saturday soon after a rapidly-mounting river wrecked a major bridge, […]
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Climate change has made India’s heatwave 100 times more likely, says U.K. weather service
A farmer pours water on himself while working at a wheat farm in the Ludhiana district of Punjab, India, on Sunday, May 1, 2022. T. Narayan | Bloomberg | Getty Images The blistering heatwave in northwest India and Pakistan was made over 100 times more likely because of human-caused climate change, according to a new study published […]
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Education is important, ‘but the money does not seem to add up,’ says UNESCO
The amount spent on financing education doesn’t match the view that education is important, said Priyadarshani Joshi, a research officer on UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report team. Nobody would argue that education isn’t important, “but the money does not seem to add up,” Joshi told CNBC’s Squawk Box Asia last Friday as she spoke about […]
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Ties with U.S., India may improve under Pakistan’s new government
Pakistan’s parliament picked Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister, just days after his predecessor Imran Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote. Aamir Qureshi | AFP | Getty Images Pakistan has a new prime minister — and this could augur well for the South Asian country’s return to a healthier economy and its […]
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Pakistani lawmakers elect Shahbaz Sharif as new premier
Pakistan’s opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif has been elected as the country’s new prime minister. Aamir Qureshi | Afp | Getty Images Pakistan’s parliament elected opposition lawmaker Shahbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister on Monday, after a walkout by lawmakers from ousted Premier Imran Khan’s party. Sharif was the only contender. He is the […]
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Pakistan vote on ousting PM Khan delayed, uncertainty continues
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during an interview with Reuters in Islamabad, Pakistan June 4, 2021. Saiyna Bashir | Reuters Pakistan’s parliament abruptly adjourned before a planned vote on ousting Prime Minister Imran Khan and had not reconvened as scheduled on Saturday as political uncertainty continued to grip the nuclear-armed country. Members of Khan’s […]
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Pakistan’s top court blocks Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to stay in power
Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan speaks during the 48th Foreign Ministers Council Meeting of Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Pakistan on March 22, 2022. Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Khan’s bid to stay in power, ruling that his move to dissolve Parliament and call early elections was illegal. Muhammed Semih Ugurlu | Anadolu […]
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