Pakistan appeals for international assistance after floods
Karachi, Pakistan Reuters Pakistan has urged the international community to help with relief efforts as it struggles to cope with the aftermath of torrential rains that triggered massive floods last month, killing more than 800 people, officials said. Funding and reconstruction efforts will be a challenge for cash-strapped Pakistan, which is having to cut spending […]
Updated: Flash floods kill over 500 people in Pakistan during heaviest rains in decades
Updated: 8am, 6th August, 2022 (AEST)Islamabad, Pakistan Reuters Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished south-western province of Balochistan among the hardest hit, a government agency said. Government agencies and the army have set up aid and […]
Flooding in Pakistan kills dozens as heavy monsoon rains lash the country
Quetta, Pakistan Reuters Intense floods killed dozens of people and left hundreds homeless in Pakistan, officials said on Saturday, as heavy monsoon rains battered the country. In the southern province of Balochistan, 57 people, including women and children, were killed after being swept away in flood waters, according to Ziaullah Langove, the disaster and home […]
Pakistan struggles to quell violence on its Afghan border
Islamabad, PakistanReuters Pakistan’s military has stepped up operations along the Afghan border in recent weeks after a spate of militant attacks that has dashed any hope the frontier might see more peace and stability after the end of the war in Afghanistan. Islamist and separatist factions have killed at least 14 Pakistani soldiers in attacks […]
PAKISTAN ELECTIONS: CHRISTIANS EXPRESS DISMAY AT LACK OF REPRESENTATION
With elections scheduled for later this month, ASIF AQEEL, of World Watch Monitor, looks the representation of Christians and other minority groups in Parliament in Pakistan…
“Extremists given a free hand” – Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
World Watch Monitor Two Pakistani Christians were killed and at least three injured in a drive-by shooting on Sunday in Essa Nagri, a Christian-majority area in Quetta, capital of the impoverished Balochistan province in the south-west. The victims, aged 19 and 28, had just left a Seventh-day Adventist church service when they were gunned down […]
Pakistan expels South Korean for ‘illegal preaching’ after murder of Chinese ‘missionaries’
World Watch Monitor Pakistan has ordered a South Korean man to leave the country, accusing him of involvement in “illegal preaching activities”, after two of his students at an Urdu-language school were abducted and killed by the so-called Islamic State group, which claimed they had been secretly preaching Christianity. “Investigations have revealed that [Juan Won-seo] went […]