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Pakistan: HRCP calls for action on land rights, women's inclusion in agric
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The convention painted a bleak picture of the ongoing crisis in Pakistan's agricultural heartland, with climate change severely disrupting crop cycles and threatening the livelihoods of many farmers.
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Load-shedding woes continue in PoJK; climate change worsens crisis
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Residents of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir are facing escalating challenges due to severe load-shedding, a crisis intensified by deforestation and climate change. These issues, coupled with government inaction, have plunged the region into deeper turmoil.
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Impact of climate change in Pakistan's Balochistan continues to worsen
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
As the Conference of Parties-28 (COP28) concludes by highlighting climate change concerns, an expert stressed that Pakistan's Balochistan has been witnessing the effects of climate change since the late 1990s, adding that the impacts of climate change have continued to worsen over the last t
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"Pakistan highly vulnerable to climate change impacts": Economist Intellig
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
According to a report published by Economist Intelligence Unit on Friday, Pakistan has been identified as "highly" susceptible to climate change impacts, reported Geo TV.
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Pakistan: 86 people killed, 151 injured since June 25 as rains monsoon rai
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The NDMA, in its report, stated that six people died and nine others were wounded in the heavy rains across Pakistan in the past 24 hours, according to ARY News.
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Climate change, rain-induced floods affect tourism in Pakistan's Swat Vall
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The weather patterns and recent rain spells indicate that climate change is among the major challenges the tourism sector will have to adapt to. Swat, Dir and Chitral are three districts particularly vulnerable to climate change. Nestled in the Hindu Kush mountain range, these areas are regu
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Pakistan's most crucial challenges include impacts of climate change: Repo
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
The most crucial challenges for Pakistan include the impacts of climate change -- floods, heat waves, drought, crop losses and diseases -- whose frequency has increased rapidly over the past couple of decades.
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Pakistan farmers stuck in vicious cycle of debt as crops destroyed in floo
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 3 (ANI): As floodwaters in Pakistan recede, the story of those in the worst affected regions comes to the surface with many farmers sharing their woes of being stuck in a vicious cycle of sinking into debt and not being able to pay back the landlords, media repo
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Pakistan should not be left at mercy of climate change: PM Shahbaz Sharif
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 31 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the international community should not leave developing countries like Pakistan at the mercy of climate change.
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Massive wildfire breaks out in Pakistan's Margalla hills forest area
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 7 (ANI): Amid the searing heatwaves and increasing temperature, a fire broke out in the forest in Islamabad's Sector H-12 on Tuesday, following the back-to-back wildfires in the Margalla hills here.
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Pakistan: Climate change deepens water crisis, worries mount amid droughts
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 17 (ANI): Pakistan's Federal Minister for Climate Change, Sherry Rehman, on Monday raised the issue of water scarcity while Pakistan is designated as one of the three most water-stressed countries in the world as the intense water crisis in the country has led to se
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Climate change adds fuel to an imminent wheat crisis in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 11 (ANI): As Pakistan grapples with an acute economic crisis, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has released climate summaries that indicate that climate change in the country is leading to an acute wheat shortage accompanied by food and water scarcity.
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