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UN: Flash Floods in Afghanistan's Badakhshan affected over 1,000 household
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported that the floods in the Jurm and Baharak districts in Badakhshan province have inflicted significant financial damage on local farmers and herders.
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Pakistan: Sutlej River continues to see ‘high’ flood levels at two points
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
As per the Pakistan Meteorological Department’s (PMD) Flood Forecasting Division (FFD), the flow of water at Islam Headworks at 1 pm on Saturday was 147,230 cusecs, nearly three times the normal flow, while it was recorded at 122,326 cusecs at Ganda Singh Wala Headworks.
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Flood waters have gone but horror continues for children in Pakistan, UNIC
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Millions of children in Pakistan remain dependent on humanitarian assistance as recovery and rehabilitation efforts from last year’s catastrophic floods lack sufficient funding, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday.
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Pakistan: Five including 4 girls die in Balochistan amid heavy rainfall
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
At least five people, including four girls, died in flash floods in Quetta as the torrential rains lashed the various districts of Balochistan province in Pakistan, Dawn reported.
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Hundreds of villages submerge in various areas of Pakistan’s Punjab
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Hundreds of villages in various areas of Pakistan’s Punjab have submerged under water due to low to medium floods in the Ravi, Sutlej, and Indus rivers, Dawn reported.
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Pak PM Shehbaz instructs authorities to make foolproof arrangements for ha
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday instructed authorities to make foolproof arrangements for handling a flood-like situation in the Ravi, Chenab and Sutlej rivers, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: Shortage of water to affect Kharif crops
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The water regulator, however, could not bridge differences between the two large provinces over the conveyance losses. As a result, the meeting set up a committee led by IRSA's member for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa "to determine actual system conveyance losses to resolve the issue", the regulator sa
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Only 3 per cent of World Bank's USD 100 million funding used to flood-proo
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Less than three per cent of the World Bank's budget, which it gave as loans to the local Sindh government, has been spent, after three years.
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Pakistan on path of 'bankruptcy', fooling countries for funds: Report
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Pakistan is going on the path of 'bankruptcy' and has resumed its five decades-old practice of pleading for funds from other countries and fleecing the world's kindness, writes Sakariya Kareem in Asian Lite.
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Pakistan's Kandia tehsil residents living without electricity
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
There were around 50 MHPs in Kandia tehsil but all of them were swept away in floods, locals said, adding that they had restored some of the stations on a self-support basis.
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US announces USD 100 million for Pakistan's flood recovery and reconstruct
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Addressing a press briefing on Monday, Ned Price said that new financial assistance will be used for flood protection and governance disease.
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Pakistan floods reminder that climate change will bring more disasters in
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to the United Nations' 2022 Year in Review report on Climate and Environment, in 2022, while some regions suffered from a lack of water, others were hit by severe floods.
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