US: Extreme weather caused $165B damage
WASHINGTON: Major hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, drought and a fierce winter storm caused more than $165 billion in damage in the United States last year with climate change "supercharging" some extreme…
Macron
France pledges $10.7M in aid for Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday pledged €10 million ($10.75 million) to support Pakistan after the last year's devastating floods. "We tried to address urgent needs right from the…
Pakistan secures $9B pledges at Geneva Con
GENEVA: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday (10th Jan 2022) said over $9 billion in pledges made by the countries and development partners showed their confidence in Pakistan’s coalition government.…
NDMA for proactive mode
ISLAMABAD: Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Lieutenant General Inam Haider Malik on Tuesday (10th of Jan 2023) said the country's overall remodeled National Disaster Preparedness and Response framework was…
Ozone Layer
Ozone layer recovery is on track: UN
MANHATTAN: The Ozone layer, which acts as a shield and protects life on the Earth from harmful the Sun's ultraviolet rays, is on track to recover within four decades, a…
PMD forecast rain with snowfall on KP hills
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Regional Weather Forecasting Centre here forecast rain with snowfall over the hills in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the period from 11 to 13th January. A westerly…
Floods: Dar seeks budgetary support
GENEVA: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar on Monday (9th of Jan 2023) sought budgetary support to create fiscal space for the Pakistan Government to continue…
Médecins Sans Frontières on Pak Floods
ISLAMABAD: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has said that ensuring adequate food, water, sanitation, health care and shelter must be a priority for the international and national response to the catastrophic…
World Bank
WB working with partners on flood rehabilitation
GENEVA: WB Vice President for the South Asia Region Martin Raiser on Monday said the World Bank was working with its development partners on flood rehabilitation in Pakistan. "The World…
Sherry Rehman on Climate Poly-crisis
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman on Monday (9th of Jan 2023) said Pakistan needed to create the much-needed lifeline that will help Pakistanis manage predictability for…
Unicef
UNICEF urges countries to prioritize needs of Pakistan’s flood-affected children
ISLAMABAD: United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Monday (9th of Jan 2023) urged countries to prioritize both the immediate and longer-term needs of flood-affected children in Pakistan through the…
Over $8B Pledged For Post-Flood Recovery
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif Monday said that considering ‘the gigantic task of resilient recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction of 33 million flood-affected people ’, they were looking towards the…
The Resilient Pakistan, Post-Flood Scenario
Noor Ali ISLAMABAD: The damages caused by devastating floods in Pakistan have reached unprecedented levels. More than one third of the country is submerged in water and this disaster has…
Snowfall disrupts routine life in Kalam, Chitral, Malakand
PESHAWAR: Incessant rain and long-anticipated snowfall in Kalam, Chitral and Malakand disrupted routine life by confining locals into their houses, the locals said on Sunday. According to Regional Meteorological Department,…
Pak will unveil post-disaster framework plan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan would place a comprehensive post-disaster framework plan for recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction before development partners and friendly countries at the International Conference on Resilient Pakistan in Geneva on…
peshawar
Heavy fog grips Peshawar city
PESHAWAR: The traffic flow is slow in Peshawar city with heavy fog gripping the entire surroundings and the visibility is very low, an official of the Met Office said. According…
Shehbaz Sharif
Pak Floods: PM says global support has ebbed away
ISLAMABAD: PM Shehbaz Sharif Friday (6th Jan 2023) in an oped piece on floods for Guardian lamented that the "International attention has receded, but the waters have not". PM held…
Ayaz Sadiq calls for expediting rehabilitation activities in flood-hit areas
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Economic and Political Affairs Sardar Ayaz Sadiq held a meeting with the UK/US humanitarian delegation headed by the Member of House of Lords Qurban Hussain here on…
Int’l Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan
SOHBATPUR: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday (4th of Jan 2023) expressed the hope that civilized societies would come forward to support the reconstruction and rehabilitation of flood-hit Pakistan at…
NDMA holds NEOC session on Post-Flood situation
ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Tuesday held a meeting at National Emergencies Operations Centre (NEOC) here which was presided by Chairman NDMA, Lieutenant General Inam Haider Malik.…
Zero tolerance for terrorism: NSC
ISLAMABAD: The National Security Committee (NSC)on Monday (2nd day of Jan 2023) reiterated its resolve to have zero tolerance for terrorism in Pakistan and reaffirmed its determination to take on…
Leopard at Margalla
Growing leopard encounter issue
KARACHI: Experts on Sunday (1st of January, 2022) demanded the quarters concerned to come forward for a collective effort to form a technical forum to gather scientific evidence in order…
Margalla Hills Trail-5, a new tourist destination
ISLAMABAD: The biodiversity-rich Margalla Hills National Park's Trail-5 has emerged as a new tourist and healthy activity destination for avid nature lovers, hikers, and fitness freaks of the twin cities…
Floods in Pk: UNHCR receives €1M from L’Oréal
ISLAMABAD: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has received € 1M donation by the L’Oréal Group, the world’s leading beauty company, to provide emergency support for flood-affected communities in…