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Blinken urges Pakistan to seek debt relief from China amid floods
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 28 (ANI): As Pakistan is facing devastating floods, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on Islamabad to seek debt relief from Beijing to deal with the natural disaster.
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Over 2 lakh people affected by natural disasters in Afghanistan: Report
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 28 (ANI): Occurrences of floods and earthquakes across several provinces of Afghanistan have affected more than 2,23,000 people over the past several months, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report.
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Pakistan: Amid financial crisis, Punjab govt approves PKR 1.33 billion for
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 28 (ANI): Pakistan's Punjab province approved PKR (Pakistani Rupees) 1.33 billion to purchase 133 VIP protocol and luxury vehicles for their government functionaries and officers when the country is facing a flood, food crisis, unemployment, poverty and inflat
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Pakistan spends USD 450 million on F-16 package from US, amid USD 28 billi
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 27 (ANI): While Pakistan at UNGA recently urged the international communities to help it with economic losses amid the unprecedented flooding, which is estimated to be USD 28 billion, on the other hand, it recently received F-16-related equipment from the Unit
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Banned jihadist groups radicalize Pakistanis under garb of flood relief ef
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 27 (ANI): Jihadist group, Lashkar-e-Taiba along with other banned terror outfits have now resurfaced in Pakistan and are spreading its jihadi ideology and radicalizing and recruiting Pakistanis for terror activities in the name of so-called flood relief effort
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Despite IMF loans, Pakistani rupee continues to fall
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 27 (ANI): Despite the inflow of International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans, Pakistan's currency continues to fall.
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YSR Congress MP Vijayasai Reddy welcomes CM Jagan Mohan Reddy's decision o
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], September 27 (ANI): Rajya Sabha MP and YSR Congress general secretary Vijayasai Reddy welcomed the decision of Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy to establish three capitals in Andhra Pradesh citing the Bengaluru floods as the reason.
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Manage ties with India, engage China on debt relief: Blinken tells Bilawal
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 27 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday and held talks on several key issues including the importance of managing ties with India and engagement with China on the issue of debt relief.
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US provided USD 56.5 million in aid to Pakistan for flood relief, humanita
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 27 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at the State Department on Monday and said that America had provided USD 56.5 million in aid to Pakistan for flood relief and humanitarian assistance this year
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Children succumb to water-borne diseases after floods wreak havoc in Pakis
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], September 27 (ANI): Amid the ongoing devastation caused by floods across Pakistan, children are dying from cholera, an acute diarrheal illness contracted by drinking water contaminated with bacteria.
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Pakistan authorities' negligence leaves locals of Gilgit Baltistan in mise
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Gilgit Baltistan [Pakistan], September 26 (ANI): Locals of the Hoper nullah area in Nagar district of Gilgit Baltistan have complained that despite the recent unprecedented flooding, not a single official visited the area to ascertain the magnitude of the disaster, leaving the people of the
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Protest held outside Pakistan HC in London against govt's ignorance of Sin
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], September 26 (ANI): The World Sindhi Congress (WSC) on Sunday protested by holding a hunger strike in front of the Pakistan High Commission in London to protest against the negligence of the Pakistan government amid unprecedented floods that led to the virtual drowning of Sindh
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