One year after record floods left 21 million Pakistanis reeling, thousands living on the country’s southern fertile plains have seen their homes washed away for a second time – despite the spending
Advisor Climate Affairs, Dr Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry has termed climate change as the major reason of unprecedented torrential monsoon rains in Sindh which caused severe flooding in the province.
Pingrio: Pakistani soldiers in inflatable rescue boats peered across kilometers of flooded farmland and spotted a man wading through waist-deep water desperate to move his goat to high ground.
Torrential monsoon rains have lashed Sindh, triggering flooding and affecting more than five million people, among them communities still recovering from last year's extraordinary floods.
The Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah said that more than 3 million people have been displaced/affected due to torrential rains in Sindh and added that farming community is worst affected amo
The floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Sindh have caused an estimated loss of $7 billion to the agrarian economy of the country as over 2.5 million bales of cotton, 2 million tons of Irri-6
The current widespread rains in the country almost damaged 5 to 7 percent of the total size of the anticipated cotton crop 2011-12, agriculture experts said on Friday.
The UN Children`s Fund, Unicef, warned on Tuesday that Pakistan stands in the way of global eradication of polio and could potentially be the last reservoir worldwide of the crippling disease.
