Pakistan needs to shield farmers from climate-related financial impacts
As climate events continue to affect Pakistan’s farming communities, better-aligned insurance schemes need to be adopted by the government.
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Lahore’s dangerous smog: where disease and death stalk
With air quality hitting “hazardous” highs, Lahore is forced into survival mode — schools shut, hospitals overflow, and households resort to pricey air purifiers to keep the…
Long queues at Gaza City bakery as famine looms
A review by the Famine Review Committee last week found an “imminent and substantial likelihood of famine occurring, due to the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Gaza…
An apocalypse Trump won’t see
Mr. Trump walked out of two momentous agreements in his first term, making the world insecure on both counts.
Grief, anger rule Quetta railway station after deadly blast
The railway platform, otherwise buzzing with passengers now presents a desolate look.
As the world melts around them, climate refugees in Pakistan’s Hunza pin hopes on COP29
These 'climate refugees' are forced to flee their ancestral land as rising temperatures and melting glaciers increasingly threaten their way of life.
2 suspects arrested in Karachi airport attack on Chinese nationals: Sindh home minister
On October 6, a massive explosion occurred on a road near Jinnah International Airport, killing a total of three people — including two Chinese engineers — and injuring at…
Two Chinese nationals injured in Karachi shooting
According to a statement by the Sindh home department, a clash broke out between the foreigners and security guards at a police station in Karachi’s Sindh Industrial Trading…
Taliban government assures Afghan soil won’t be used for attacks on Pakistan
Afghan Chargé d’Affaires Mawlawi Sardar Ahmad Shakeeb on Tuesday, Oct. 29, said the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor created many opportunities for the region that could…
Pakistan PM Shehbaz goes all in on AI at Riyadh investment conference
PM Shehbaz said Pakistan was laying the foundation for a knowledge-based economy driven by innovation in three pivotal domains, artificial intelligence, education, and health, in…