Pakistan
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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Methane emissions surged by a record amount in 2021, NOAA says
A broken oil well pipeline gauge near Depew, Oklahoma J Pat Carter/Getty Images Global emissions of methane, the second-biggest contributor to human-caused climate change after carbon dioxide, surged by a record amount in 2021, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday. Methane, a key component of natural gas, is 84 times more potent than […]
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Pakistan’s embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan is defiant, says he won’t resign
Besieged by the opposition and abandoned by coalition partners, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan is battling for his political survival. In this photo from September 2021, Khan speaks in a prerecorded video during the United Nations General Assembly. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Pakistan’s embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan remained defiant Thursday, telling […]
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