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Pakistani province issues flood alert and warns of heavy loss of life due to glacial melting
8 months ago

Pakistani province issues flood alert and warns of heavy loss of life due to glacial melting

The Independent  

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FACT CHECK: Old video of Pakistan floods misrepresented as recent floods in Kedarnath
1 year, 4 months ago

FACT CHECK: Old video of Pakistan floods misrepresented as recent floods in Kedarnath

India TV News  

A video of flash floods in the Swat Valley of Pakistan in 2020 is being falsely shared on social media as recent floods in Kedarnath, India. Image Source : INDIA TVScreenshot of the video shared on the Facebook page Image Source : INDIA TVAnother video of flood in Swat Valley India TV did a fact check When we found this …

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Pakistan flood recovery needs 'massive' investment: UN
1 year, 11 months ago

Pakistan flood recovery needs 'massive' investment: UN

Firstpost  

Geneva: The UN chief called Monday for “massive investments” to help Pakistan recover from last year’s devastating floods and better resist climate change, as financial pledges poured in. “No country deserves to endure what happened to Pakistan,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told an international conference in Geneva, which is seeking billions of dollars to support recovery from the disaster. Loss …

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Donors pledge more than $9bn for Pakistan flood recovery
1 year, 11 months ago

Donors pledge more than $9bn for Pakistan flood recovery

Al Jazeera  

Pakistan official says donors at Geneva conference have committed more than $9bn to help it recover from devastating floods. Pakistan says donors at an international conference in Geneva have pledged to give more than $9bn to help it rebuild following last year’s devastating floods. Pakistan’s 4RF plan Islamabad says the Geneva conference is focused on two objectives: the “Resilient Recovery, …

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Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif urges international community to help flood victims
1 year, 11 months ago

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif urges international community to help flood victims

Firstpost  

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that the terrible rains and floods in the country last summer had killed 1,700 people. Shehbaz Sharif wrote an article for the Guardian newspaper in which he urged the global community to help Pakistan. No amount of pumps can remove this water in less than a year; and by July 2023, the …

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Pakistan reopens highway to speed up aid to flood victims
2 years, 3 months ago

Pakistan reopens highway to speed up aid to flood victims

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani engineers and soldiers cleared a key highway on Thursday to enable aid workers to speed up supplies to survivors of devastating floods that have left hundreds of thousands homeless and killed 1,508 people, the majority of them women and children. On Thursday, Palitha Gunarathna Mahipala, the representative of the World Health Organization in Pakistan, handed over medical …

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Explained: How Pakistan is battling to stop Manchar Lake from bursting amid floods
2 years, 3 months ago

Explained: How Pakistan is battling to stop Manchar Lake from bursting amid floods

Firstpost  

Manchar Lake, the country’s largest freshwater body, is dangerously full. Sindh’s Manchar Lake is dangerously full after record monsoons that inundated a third of Pakistan and killed over 1,300 people since mid-June. Geo News quoted Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Khan Shoro as saying the water level in the lake had not receded despite a controlled breach on Sunday. “We have …

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Pakistan uses boats, helicopters to evacuate flood victims
2 years, 4 months ago

Pakistan uses boats, helicopters to evacuate flood victims

The Independent  

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