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ISLAMABAD: Russia has offered Pakistan wheat and gas amidst soaring prices of fuel and commodities as the government struggles to make up for crops and food stocks washed away by catastrophic floods, which have also killed more than 1,500 people, a minister said on Saturday.
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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.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s already weak economy will further drag on growth in the current fiscal year of 2022/23 as it confronted catastrophic floods that wiped out vital cash crops in two provinces and would also exacerbate political instability, Fitch Solutions said.
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ISLAMABAD: Russia can supply gas to Pakistan as necessary infrastructures are already in place, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday during his meeting with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Uzbekistan, Russian state-owned news wire TASS reported.
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ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan said the appointment of army chief should be deferred until a new government is elected in a free and fair election, which should then choose the new military head.
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KARACHI: Sindh has raised the price at which the government will buy next season wheat from farmers by at least 80 percent, as the flood-devastated province looks to support millions of farmers who lost almost everything in the catastrophic deluge of monsoon.
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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.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has dropped seven spots in the Human Development Index (HDI), ranking 161 out of 192 countries in the 2021-2022, a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report said.
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ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday called world community for ‘massive’ financial support for flood-ravaged Pakistan as damages caused by deadly deluges exceed $30 billion.
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ISLAMABAD: The government plans to rehire Credit Suisse as financial advisor to sell its stakes in two RLNG power plants.
