ISLAMABAD: Desperate to save millions from raging floodwaters, authorities have blasted embankments to divert rivers from Jhang and Multan, evacuating over 429,000 people as India’s dam releases worsen a disaster intensified by New Delhi’s earlier suspension of a critical water-sharing treaty.
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Pakistan battles catastrophic floods as India’s treaty halt, barrage failure swell rivers to 40-year highs
LAHORE: As floodwaters crept toward Lahore’s fringes on Friday, Pakistani officials pointed fingers across the border, blaming India for amplifying a catastrophic deluge through its suspension of a critical river-sharing treaty and the failure of gates on a key barrage that unleashed uncontrolled torrents downstream.
ECC approves Rs40bln plan to wind down loss-making Utility Stores Corp
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Thursday greenlit a roughly Rs40 billion plan to wind down the state-run Utility Stores Corporation (USC), a once-profitable retailer that has haemorrhaged funds for over a decade.
Pakistan postpones revenue-sharing talks as Sindh faces flood threat
By Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Pakistan delayed the first meeting of the 11th National Finance Commission (NFC), the country’s revenue distribution body, on Thursday after Sindh
PM Sharif vows fresh push for Basha, Momin and small dams amid flood devastation
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday called for urgent construction of reservoirs and dams as swollen rivers devastated the breadbasket province of Punjab, where at least 17 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands evacuated this week.
Punjab battles worst floods in 40 years, with downstream peril looming in Sindh
ISLAMABAD: With the Chenab River poised to unleash up to 800,000 cubic feet per second of water in the next two days, Pakistani officials in Punjab have evacuated more than a quarter-million people from flood-stricken areas, where monsoon rains and releases from Indian dams have already devastated farmland, drowned 17 residents, and impacted 1.46 million in the province’s deadliest inundation in decades.
Floods in Punjab kill at least 15, displace hundreds of thousands as rivers rage and dam breach looms
ISLAMABAD: Raging floodwaters fed by monsoon rains and releases from Indian dams swept through Pakistan’s Punjab province on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, submerging hundreds of villages and displacing or affecting more than 600,000 residents, as authorities scrambled to evacuate thousands more amid fears of a catastrophic dam breach.
PTI lawmakers resign from key committees on Imran Khan’s orders
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s main opposition party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), plunged deeper into confrontation with the government on Wednesday as its lawmakers began resigning from all National Assembly standing committees, acting on direct instructions from the party’s jailed founder, Imran Khan.
CCP pushes for ban on Chinese e-commerce giant Temu over unregulated operations
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s antitrust authority has called on the country’s telecommunications regulator to ban the Chinese e-commerce platform Temu, warning that its unregulated operations could harm local businesses.
US firms eye Pakistan’s oil sector amid Trump’s ‘massive reserves’ claim, experts skeptical
ISLAMABAD: US companies are showing renewed interest in Pakistan’s struggling energy sector following President Donald Trump’s claim of “massive” oil reserves in the South Asian nation, but industry experts remain skeptical, citing decades of limited discoveries and persistent challenges, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.