Pakistan Utilises Only 29.4% Of Donor Funding For 2022 Flood Relief

05 Jun 2024

Pakistan, which faced devastating floods in 2022, has utilized only 29.4% of the donor funding for flood relief projects out of the total pledged amount of USD 3.36 billion by international donors and local funds of USD 364 million until May, according to a media report on Wednesday. A meeting...

Saudi Crown Prince orders new investments in Pakistan

11 Jan 2023

Pakistan after being hit by the worst floods in its history, to receive relief in the form of assistance and investments from Saudi Arabia after Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s order. The investments are said to be done after conducting studies Exploring viable strategy. According to state-run Saudi Press Agency...

Pakistani immigrants to have temporary protected status: US

19 Oct 2022

As a result of this year's unprecedented floods, US senators are requesting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Pakistani nationals who currently reside in the US. In a letter to US President Joe Biden last month, two Democratic senators—Diane Feinstein of California and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York—begged him to give...

Pakistan floods: 5.7 million victims to face food crisis, says UN

03 Oct 2022

The humanitarian agency of the United Nations has warned that about 5.7 victims of the Pakistan floods will face a serious food crisis in the next three months.Pakistan recently faced heavy floods from the deluge that has killed and taken away the shelter of many people. Pakistan’s National Disaster Management...

UN Secretary pays a visit to the flood areas of Pakistan

10 Sep 2022

On the final day of a two-day trip to raise awareness of the disaster, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited several flood-ravaged areas in Pakistan. Floods caused by heavy monsoon rains and glacier melt in the northern mountains have killed over 1,391 people and destroyed homes, roads, railway tracks, bridges, livestock,...

PM Modi tweets for Pak flood, Shehbaz Sharif trembles over Kashmir

31 Aug 2022

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif responded irrationally to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's straightforwardly sympathetic tweet about the devastation caused by floods in Pakistan in an effort to gain political advantage over Imran Khan Niazi and placate the domestic public over Jammu and Kashmir pipedreams. Even though the highest echelons of the...