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Pak's Karachi submerged in 2022 despite millions pumped by World Bank: Rep
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Despite pouring millions of dollars into Pakistan, the country's biggest city, Karachi was submerged during the extreme flooding last year due to decades of neglect by the authorities to the Karachi's sewage and waste disposal systems that created the perfect recipe for flooding in the city,
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Only 3 per cent of World Bank's USD 100 million funding used to flood-proo
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Less than three per cent of the World Bank's budget, which it gave as loans to the local Sindh government, has been spent, after three years.
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Pakistan on path of 'bankruptcy', fooling countries for funds: Report
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Pakistan is going on the path of 'bankruptcy' and has resumed its five decades-old practice of pleading for funds from other countries and fleecing the world's kindness, writes Sakariya Kareem in Asian Lite.
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Pakistan's Kandia tehsil residents living without electricity
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
There were around 50 MHPs in Kandia tehsil but all of them were swept away in floods, locals said, adding that they had restored some of the stations on a self-support basis.
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PoK: 4 homes destroyed, 40 partially damaged in lake outburst in Daimer
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Two lake outbursts in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) Diamer's Tangir Valley have resulted in the complete destruction of four homes and around 40 homes partially damaged.
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4 million children living near contaminated floodwater in Pakistan: UNICEF
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Many families in Jacobabad have little more than mere cloth to cover their temporary shelters by stagnant flood waters while temperatures have dropped to seven-degree celsius at night.
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US announces USD 100 million for Pakistan's flood recovery and reconstruct
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Addressing a press briefing on Monday, Ned Price said that new financial assistance will be used for flood protection and governance disease.
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UN seeks funds for Pakistan after last year's devastating floods
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday sought "massive investments" for Pakistan to help it recover from damage caused by devastating floods that ravaged the country last year.
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Flood victims continue to have complaints against Pakistan govt over assis
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
People have said that they were given more assistance by the government in the 2010 floods, which caused less damage.
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Pakistan floods reminder that climate change will bring more disasters in
Updated : 2 months, 4 weeks ago IST
According to the United Nations' 2022 Year in Review report on Climate and Environment, in 2022, while some regions suffered from a lack of water, others were hit by severe floods.
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Construction of Diamer-Bhasha Dam alarms residents of Gilgit-Baltistan: Re
Updated : 2 months, 4 weeks ago IST
The report says that Pakistan's big dam model has come under the scanner in view of the recent floods in the country.
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Delay in IMF review team visit increases Pakistan's balance of payments di
Updated : 3 months ago IST
The visit of the IMF monitoring mission scheduled for October end has been delayed amid the differences between Islamabad's commitment to the IMF on fiscal consolidation and its actual decisions.
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