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ISLAMABAD: Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman on Friday said instant rescue and humanitarian relief had become an urgent task, as those who had survived, could not find dry land to pitch their tents. She said this during her meeting with Japanese Ambassador Mitsuhiro Wada. The minister apprised the ambassador of the devastation caused by the floods across the country, …

KARACHI: Data released by the Sindh health department showed a spike in dengue fever cases as their numbers doubled in just two days, from 201 cases on Wednesday to 403 cases on Friday. Majority of these cases were reported at hospitals located in district East (116) followed by healthcare facilities in Korangi (107), Central (72), South (61), Malir (26), West …

Nearly 40 people have died in flood-related incidents countrywide over the last 24 hours, official data shows, as officials and elected representatives continue to report a drop in water levels in Sindh where floodwaters have converged and given rise to the outbreaks of multiple diseases after wreaking havoc elsewhere. In its daily situation report on Saturday, the National Disaster Management Authority said the death …

ISLAMABAD: The Nat­ional Assembly’s standing committee on finance on Friday took notice of record inflation and the rupee’s decline and directed the central bank to keep a vigilant eye on the rising trend. The committee, chaired by MNA Qaiser Ahmed Sheikh, discussed the effects of runaway inflation and a rapidly appreciating dollar and was briefed by State Minister for Finance …

ISLAMABAD: Two weeks on after the announcement of the UN flash appeal to help Pakistan cope with massive losses incurred due to unprecedented floods, the world body has yet to deploy its ‘cluster approach’ to improve the efficacy of the local and global humanitarian response to this disaster of epic proportions. UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Julien Harneis told Dawn that the UN system will …

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Saturday said that besides gas, Russia had also offered to provide wheat to Pakistan in the wake of catastrophic floods and keeping in view the possibility of food shortages that may occur in the aftermath of deluges. “Russia has said that it can provide us wheat because in the coming days we may have shortages …

KARACHI: The K-Electric has started charging its 3.2 million consumers in its service territory a controversial tax on behalf of the Sindh government, it emerged on Thursday. For the last one year, the Sindh government had tried to collect the Municipal Utility Charges and Taxes (MUCT) for the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) via electricity bills of the KE, but the …

LAHORE: The PML-N demands an audit of collection of donations for flood victims by PTI chairman Imran Khan through telethons. “Where is this money? Share details of it (with the nation),” PML-N MPA Rana Mashhood demanded at a press conference here on Thursday. He argued that the donations so collected were amanat of the nation (and thus warranted state intervention …

ISLAMABAD: Angered by the absence of top officials from a meeting, convened to discuss a raid at the house of a senator, a Senate panel on Thursday asked the secretary interior, inspector general of police (IGP) Islamabad and other relevant officers to attend the next meeting in person. Members of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior, which met here with …

ISLAMABAD: A scientific study by an international meteorological expert group — World Weather Attribution (WWA) — has found compelling evidence of climate change exacerbating recent devastating floods and heatwave earlier this year and has asked Pakistan to seek compensation from developed nations for loss and damage support along with immediate push to reduce carbon emissions. “We found that the 5-day maximum rainfall …