Six months after devastating floods first hit Pakistan, in July 2010, some 166,000 people are still displaced and living in over 240 camps and spontaneous settlements. This is substantially down from ...
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is continuing to support the government-led relief efforts in flood-hit parts of Pakistan, where the situation remains dire. Authorities and humanitarian agencies are ...
Pakistan, Oct. 17 -- The government has given major relief to flood-affected power consumers by deferring electricity bills from August to December. This applies to commercial and agricultural users ...
Nearly 300,000 people have been evacuated in the past 48 hours from flood-hit areas of Pakistan’s Punjab province following the latest flood alerts by India, officials have said, bringing the total ...
LAHORE, Pakistan, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Vegetable and fruit prices have soared in markets across Pakistan as devastating rains ruin crops and disrupt supplies, an early sign of how the worst floods in ...
ISLAMABAD, Sept 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Pakistan is facing a disaster within a disaster as diseases spread rapidly and deaths mount following widespread deadly flooding - a crisis worsened ...