By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Friday “all hell will break loose” if the flood devastated Pakistan is not provided with debt relief by rich countries.
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Flood-hit Pakistan should suspend debt repayments, says UN paper: FT
Monitoring Desk
NEW YORK: Pakistan should seek to suspend international debt repayments and restructure loans after devastating floods triggered a humanitarian emergency and imperiled the country’s finances, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing a UN memorandum.
“Never seen anything like” flood devastation in Pakistan: Angelina Jolie
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: Hollywood actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie on Wednesday visited several areas of Pakistan ravaged by floods, calling for increased global financial support as she feared many affected people she had met would “not make it” if more aid did not arrive.
‘More children will lose their lives’ without massive support in floods hit Pakistan
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: The catastrophic floods in Pakistan have killed at least 528 children and impacted about 16 million other, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) said on Friday, fearing many more losing their lives without a massive increase in support.
UN chief says ‘never seen climate carnage’ like Pakistan floods
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI: UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated that the needs in flood-ravaged Pakistan are enormous and called for urgent financial support, as he wrapped up a two-day trip aimed at raising awareness of the climate-driven disaster with flights over some of the hardest hit areas.
PM Sharif to consult coalition partners on importing goods from India
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The government is considering loosening restrictions on the largely closed border with arch-rival India to import mostly vegetables to mitigate cataclysmic floods fallout as food prices have risen sharply, a minister said on Wednesday.
TTP Commander Khorasani killed in Afghanistan roadside attack
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: A top Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander, with a $3 million bounty on his head, has been killed in a roadside bombing in eastern Afghanistan, the group said.
Curtains for Imran Khan?
By Ahmer Kureishi
If some of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders expected the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to burn Imran Khan on stake, well, their hopes have not prospered. But if you look at the ruling handed down by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja and his two colleagues, you cannot help appreciating a job well done.
Army chief Bajwa seeks US help in early release of $1.17bn IMF tranche
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has reached out to the US for an early disbursal of the $1.2 billion loan from the IMF’s bailout programme as the cash-strapped country grapples with dwindling foreign exchange reserves inching towards foreign debt obligations.
Diplomacy: FM Bhutto, US state secretary endorse ‘sustained engagement’
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister (FM) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday invited the US to deepen trade and non-trade ties during a telephonic talk with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who called him to discuss matters of bilateral significance.