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The scenes of water torrents running through the fields, mountains, highways and streets in most parts of Balochistan, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the southern part of Punjab have been circulating on media in the past few weeks, drawing attention to the collapse being experienced by Pakistan. (...)
On 25 August, Pakistan declared a state of emergency due to flooding, which has been described as among the worst in the country’s history. Millions of people have been displaced due to rain and flooding with UN preliminary estimates indicating that 575,000 people were living in relief camps at (...)
Cancel the debt, or let the Bretton Woods group profit from climate disaster, writes Farooq Tariq.
At the time of writing, more than one-third of Pakistan is under water. Flash floods, generated by abnormal monsoon rains have so far claimed the lives of 1350 people. One million residential (...)
Screen grab from a video of five men stranded by flash floods in upper Kohistan. Four of them perished in the waters | White Star [for the picture, see the original article.
As the five men scrambled on to a big rock in the middle of the suddenly gushing torrents in the Dubair stream near (...)
Monsoon rains and melting glaciers have driven tens of millions of Pakistanis from their homes. The disaster shows that the poor Global South populations who do least to cause climate change are the people who pay most for its consequences.
A decade since the last mega-floods that hit Pakistan (...)
There are three key ways climate change probably made these floods worse.
Pakistan is experiencing the most devastating and widespread floods in its history, with the country’s climate minister saying waters have reached across a third of the nation.
The growing tally of impacts is dire. More (...)
This is a “climate-induced humanitarian disaster of epic proportions,” said the country’s climate change minister.
Pakistan declared a national emergency on Friday as catastrophic monsoon rains, exacerbated by the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis, continued to pummel the country for the third (...)
The government is kicking out 18 international charities after rejecting their final appeal to stay in the country, a move that an aid group spokesman said on Thursday would affect millions of desperately poor people and lead to tens of millions of aid dollars lost.
The majority of the (...)
The Supreme Court-appointed has regretted failure on part of the state to address the grievances of the quake-affected people. It also blamed the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra) for failing to update its project-related information thus resulting in pilferage, (...)
ISLAMABAD, 27 October 2015 (IRIN) - Pakistan added detailed seismic provisions to its national building code in 2007, two years after an earthquake in the Kashmir region killed more than 80,000 people and destroyed countless constructions. They have gone largely unenforced, compounding the (...)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 9 2015 (IPS) - Jauhar Shah lost everything. His house came tumbling down while his family was sleeping. He survived but his wife and daughter did not. The October 26 tremor measuring 8.1 Richter scale changed his life forever.
“We underwent immense hardships because our (...)
A powerful earthquake struck Badakshan Province in Afghanistan on 26 October, and has affected thousands of people across a large area of North-West Pakistan. According to the US Geological Service the magnitude 7.5 quake struck at 09:09 (UTC), was 196 kilometers (121 miles) deep, and the (...)
At the Federal executive committee meeting of Labour Party Pakistan held yesterday in Lahore, Younas Rahu, general secretary Labour Party Sindh reported that 4000 rain affected families have been helped by the relief efforts by LPP. They belong to seven districts including Nawabshah, Sanghar, (...)
September 14, 2011 — Green Left Weekly — The 2011 floods were the worst in Pakistan’s history. Twenty million people were affected and about 2000 lost their lives.
Now there is record flooding for the second year in a row.
“This is not a natural disaster”, Farooq Tariq , the national spokesperson (...)
One year ago during the month of July/August, the floodwaters that ravaged southern parts of Pakistan have long receded. Though gone are the makeshift tent camps on roadsides revival of normal life and livelihood still remain a challenge. Thousands continue a daily struggle to support their (...)
THE flood inquiry commission formed in the wake of the 2010 floods, under the Supreme Court’s directive, has unveiled that a major cause of the devastating breach of Tori dyke was brazen negligence by the irrigation department.
The report acknowledges that most embankments are not being (...)
Everyone I meet is angry with the government. The government has announced Rs. 25 000 for every family hit by floods. But that is not enough to build even one room. To receive this grant one must also have the so-called Watan Card and in order to get that you must be able to identify yourself (...)
The Labour Relief Committee (LRC) is now in its fourth month of activities and we would like to thank you for supporting it and give you some updates on the work we are doing.
We have committees of volunteers in four provinces, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab who are (...)
Shortage of funds leaves little room for the government other than either to slash development budget or seek foreign debts.
Cameras are turning off, newspapers spaces squeezed, official visits to flood areas reduced to almost none and attention by political parties and civil society groups is (...)
Speakers at a conference on Thursday emphasised the need to lay off all loans taken by farmers and small growers in the flood affected areas of Pakistan.
This they said at a two-day conference on ‘Flood and Beyond: Recovery, Reconstruction and Reforms’ organised jointly by Pakistan Institute of (...)
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