Donor countries and international financial institutions (IFIs) have provided loans amounting to Rs 6.3 billion to Pakistan for different development projects in transport and communication sector during the current financial year 2008-09. Pakistan is still to receive $1.78 billion in terms of grants and loans for this sector from different countries and IFIs.
About 55 villagers from Shella are fighting desperately to get back their ancestral land from cement giant Lafarge after these villagers claimed they were tricked by agents to sell their land.
A lingering dispute between the Sindh government and City District Government Karachi (CDGK) may put the long-awaited Rs 500 million Benazir Transit CNG buses project in doldrums.
A lingering dispute between the Sindh government and City District Government Karachi (CDGK) may put the long-awaited Rs 500 million Benazir Transit CNG buses project in doldrums.
The economic impact of climate change on four of south-east Asia's biggest nations will be 2.5 times more severe than the global average by 2100 if carbon emissions continue at their current level, the Asian Development Bank warns in a new study.
Southeast Asia faces one of the world's highest climate change bills, the Asian Development Bank said on Monday, unless the region adapts to climate change and joins the rest of the world in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Southeast Asia is one of the world's most vulnerable regions to climate change and could face conflict over failing rice yields, lack of water and high economic costs, a major Asian Development Bank report shows.
The report focuses on Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam
With diminished rice harvests, seawater seeping into aquifers and islands vanishing into rising oceans, Southeast Asia will be among the regions worst affected by global warming, according to a report scheduled for release on Monday by the Asian Development Bank.
