Pakistan passenger train derails, killing at least 30 people, GEO reports
Islamabad, PakistanReuters A passenger train derailed in southern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 80, local broadcaster Geo reported citing a district official. A rescue worker searches for victims after a train derailed in Sarhari town in district Sanghar, Pakistan, on 6th August, 2023. PICTURE: Reuters/Yasir Rajput Around 10 […]
Flood response: In Pakistan, homes get green, disaster-resilient redesign
As Pakistan tries to rebuild better after devastating floods, cheap, natural and easy-to-construct homes may be one answer. ZOFEEN T EBRAHIM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Pakistan floods: Disease outbreaks spur calls for crisis plan
IMRAN MUKHTAR, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on disaster within a disaster taking place in Pakistan…
Malaria and diseases spreading fast in flood-hit Pakistan
Karachi, PakistanReuters The death toll from malaria and other diseases tearing through Pakistan’s flood-ravaged regions reached 324, authorities said on Wednesday, and actress Angelina Jolie said she feared many people she had met during visits to flood-hit areas this week would “not make it” if more aid did not arrive. Hundreds of thousands of people […]
Pakistan flood-borne diseases toll rises to 318
Karachi, Pakistan Reuters At least nine people died on Monday of infectious and water-borne diseases that have attacked tens of thousands of people in flood-hit Pakistan, government data showed, taking the toll from such causes to 318. The death toll from the deluge itself has touched 1,559, including 551 children and 318 women, which does […]
Death toll in Pakistan floods nears 1,500; hundreds of thousands sleep in open
Karachi/Islamabad, Pakistan Reuters Unprecedented floods that have submerged huge swathes of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,500 people, data showed on Thursday, as authorities said hundreds of thousands of people were still sleeping in the open air after the disaster. The deluge, brought by record monsoon rains and glacial melt in northern mountains, has impacted 33 […]
Pakistan looks “like a sea” after floods, PM says, as 18 more die
Sehwan, PakistanReuters Parts of Pakistan seemed “like a sea”, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday, after visiting some of the flood-hit areas that cover as much as a third of the South Asian nation, where 18 more deaths took the toll from days of rain to 1,343. A woman and children walk as they […]
Flood-hit Pakistan breaches lake to avert overflow
Karachi, Pakistan Reuters Authorities in flood-hit Pakistan breached the country’s largest freshwater lake on Sunday, displacing up to 100,000 people from their homes but saving more densely populated areas from gathering flood water, a minister said. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in Pakistan’s northern mountains have brought floods that have affected 33 million people […]
Pakistan flood toll rises with 25 children among 57 more deaths
Karachi, PakistanReuters The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb on Saturday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of near unprecedented scale. A high-level body set up to coordinate the relief effort met in Islamabad on Saturday for the first time, […]
Pakistan court orders arrests over Christian teen’s forced marriage
Karachi, PakistanThomson Reuters Foundation A Pakistani court ordered several arrests on Monday in the case of a Christian teenager who was allegedly forced to convert to Islam and marry a 44-year-old Muslim man, an incident that sparked street protests by church groups and rights activists. The high court in Sindh province – where the legal […]