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Pak Defence Min advises against blaming 'divine will' for deluge destructi
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Speaking in the National Assembly, Asif said rains were a "blessing from God," but their benefits turn into devastation when housing societies, commercial structures and even hotels were built along rivers and storm drains, as per The Express Tribune.
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Pakistan: Nearly 2 million displaced due to severe flooding
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Pakistan's Federal Minister for Climate Change, Musadik Malik, stated that nearly two million people in Pakistan have been displaced due to severe flooding, with the poorest families suffering the most, while calling on the nation to come together and provide urgent assistance to those affec
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Monsoon floods claim 831 lives across Pakistan
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has confirmed 16 new deaths in the last two days, bringing the total death toll from flooding and rain-related incidents across the country over the past two months to 831, The Express Tribune reported on Saturday.
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf to boycott by-elections, citing "flawed election
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) announced on Tuesday that it will boycott the upcoming by-elections across the country and withdraw from all parliamentary committees, citing an uneven political playing field, The Express Tribune reported.
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Pakistan: Over 120 dead in Punjab as torrential rains, floods wreak havoc
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
More than 120 people have lost their lives across Pakistan's Punjab province over the past six weeks due to intense monsoon rains and flash floods that have inundated both rural and urban regions, according to official data, The Express Tribune reported.
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Lawyers' sit-in protest in PoGB enters Day 6, demand immediate appointment
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A sit-in organised by lawyers outside the Chief Minister's Secretariat in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB) reached its sixth day on Saturday, with bar councils calling for the immediate appointment of judges to both the top and lower courts in the region, as reported by The Express
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Pakistan: PML-N, PPP to contest jointly for upcoming by-elections
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Following the disqualification of 12 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers from Pakistan's National Assembly and from the Assembly of Punjab province, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Saturday announced that they will jointly contest the upcomin
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Pakistan: Swabi cloudburst death toll rises to 42 as rescue ops conclude
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The rescue mission in Dalori Bala, a remote village in the mountainous Gadoon Amazai region of the Swabi district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has officially concluded following the recovery of all 37 people reported missing after a devastating cloudburst, taking the final deat
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IMF urges Pakistan to improve budget transparency, oversight of lawmakers'
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on Pakistan to bring greater transparency and discipline to its public spending, urging the government to route parliamentarians' development schemes through formal approval mechanisms and limit mid-year budget changes without parliamentary ov
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Pakistan: Over 340 killed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa floods, rescue efforts ha
Updated : 7 months ago IST
Rescue teams in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) districts continued to dig through mud and debris on Saturday after flash floods triggered by days of heavy monsoon rainfall claimed the lives of at least 344 people in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa within 48 hours, officials said, according to the Express Tribu
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Pakistan: Sindh's Dadu district witnesses protest against Illegal tree-cut
Updated : 7 months ago IST
On Saturday, citizens gathered on the Dadu-Johi road to raise their voices against the unauthorised logging, with lawyers, journalists, political activists, and NGO workers joining the demonstration, according to The Express Tribune.
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Pakistan reintroduces Anti-Terrorism Act with preventive detention powers
Updated : 7 months ago IST
The National Assembly of Pakistan passed the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill, 2024, restoring the provision of preventive detention for individuals suspected of terrorism, The Express Tribune reported on Tuesday.
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