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Climate Change
Over 1.1m farm animals lost in floods, seminar told
KARACHI: Highlighting their concerns over incidents of animal cruelty and absence of any state initiatives for animal welfare in decades,…
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Pakistan may become unbearably hot by end of the century
New UNDP report on COP27 eve predicts number of ‘extremely hot days’ could rise to 179 by year 2099 •…
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Pakistan: 47% government-run school buildings affected in Sindh due to floods
Karachi: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has been informed that buildings of up to 47 per cent of a…
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India’s Dams and Pakistan’s Water Crisis
ORANGI, KARACHI — Thirteen-year-old Kaneez Sughra, a resident of Pakistan’s Orangi town near Karachi, has a strange problem. Every day,…
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Flood-hit growers: Murad okays Rs7bn for provision of seeds of wheat, oil crops
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah presided over two separate meetings of the Planning and Development Board and…
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UNHCR seeks $66m for Pakistan’s flood victims
ISLAMABAD: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is urgently seeking $65.8 million to help more than 650,000 refugees, mostly…
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Two flights carrying Saudi aid arrive in Pakistan
#RIYADH: Two planes carrying 180 tons of humanitarian aid from #Saudi Arabia arrived in #Karachi as #Pakistan reels from its…
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Severe water shortage hits Karachi’s DHA after weeks-long flooding
KARACHI: While it is common knowledge that residents of Karachi’s posh Defence Housing Authority are always complaining about water shortage,…
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Dadu besieged by water; toll crosses 1,200 nationwide
DADU / KARACHI: The water level in Dadu city — surrounded on all four sides — continued to rise on…
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