Pakistan

SWAT: The residents of different villages between Bahrain and Kalam said on Wednesday that they were completely cut off from the rest of the district. They said that they did not receive any relief despite being badly affected by the floods. “Our areas fall between Bahrain and Kalam that’s why we remain unnoticed and completely ignored,” they said. Talking to …

ISLAMABAD: The Asian Deve­lopment Bank on Wednesday approved a grant of $3 million to support the relief and rehabilitation measures in the light of devastating floods in Pakistan as more international aid in the form of food and equipment, particularly from Turkiye and China, and the United Arab Emirates, arrived in the flood-hit country. According to the state-run APP, as many …

SUKKUR: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has informed diplomats of over 20 countries and representatives of donor agencies that Sindh urgently needs Rs860 billion to reconstruct collapsed houses, repair roads and revive agriculture destroyed by unrelenting heavy rains that pounded the province for several weeks. “We have to rehabilitate people, give them jobs, reconstruct road network and strengthen economy,” said Bhutto-Zardari, …

QUETTA / ISLAMABAD: The Baloc­histan government on Wednesday declared 32 out of the total 34 provincial districts “calamity-hit” as Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman hinted that at least $10 billion would be required to rebuild climate resilient infrastructure to mitigate the impacts of global warming. Since monstrous rains that started in June, at least 254 people have been killed in …

An Islamabad anti-terrorism court (ATC) extended PTI chief and former prime minister Imran Khan’s interim bail till September 12 in connection with the terrorism case registered him. The court also directed the PTI leader to submit Rs100,000 as surety. Imran was booked in a terrorism case for his controversial remarks about a female judge at a party rally in the capital on …

Rescue and relief efforts continued in Sindh’s flood-hit Dadu district on Thursday, with water up to “eight to nine foot” in some places, according to an official, as Pakistanis brace for another spell of above-normal rains this month. Abnormal heavy monsoon rains and melting glaciers triggered floods that have submerged a third of the country and killed at least 1,191 people, including …

KARACHI: There are ralli, the colourful appliqué work Sindhi quilts, drying over the boundary walls. Inside the verandah grilles are being used to dry children’s clothing items. There are also clothes lines tied from grille to grille and pillar to pillar that are full of big cotton shalwars and shirts drying out in the open. The government schools and colleges …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday admitted to have made blunders after coming to power in 2018, but vowed to take steps which have never been taken before to get the economy out of the crisis if his party gets another chance to rule the country. Mr Khan said three-and-a-half years of his government were very challenging …

ISLAMABAD: An application has been filed with Islamabad police to register a treason case against PTI Chairman Imran Khan, former finance minister Shaukat Tarin and incumbent finance ministers of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mohsin Khan Leghari and Taimur Khan Jhagra. On Monday, two audio clips surfaced via TV channels and social media in which a man said to be Mr …

ISLAMABAD: The education ministry on Tuesday finally approved the much-delayed curriculum for students who belonged to minority communities. “Today, a detailed meeting was held in the ministry on the issue of curriculum for minority students and finally it was decided to approve the curriculum. The notification in this regard will be issued on Wednesday,” said Additional Secretary Education Waseem Ajmal. …