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Pakistan threatens action against resorts, housing societies on riverbeds
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Climate Change Minister Musadik Malik on Friday warned wealthy business tycoons of action against resorts, hotels and housing societies built on riverbeds after floods inundated the northern and eastern parts of the country. Swollen rivers in Pakistan’s most populous province, Punjab, have submerged more than 1,600 villages and displaced over 1.1 million people, with about 40 deaths reported in the region since Aug. 15, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
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arabnews.com
Pakistan floods kill at least 15 in Punjab as trans-boundary rivers swell, Sindh braces for impact
ISLAMABAD: At least 15 people in Pakistan’s most populous Punjab province lost their lives in floods, officials confirmed late Wednesday night, after three monsoon-swollen rivers…
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lemonde.fr
Floods in eastern Pakistan affect 1.2 million, displace nearly 250,000
Rescuers in boats raced to reach stranded families in the populous Punjab province after three major rivers burst their banks because of heavy rain and the release of water from…
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Pakistani PM calls for building new dams as floods devastate Punjab
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday called for urgent construction of reservoirs and dams as swollen rivers devastated the breadbasket province of…
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Punjab floods submerge over 1,600 villages in Pakistan, more than 1 million evacuated
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Punjab said it has evacuated a total of 1,147,000 people from areas at high risk from floods near the Sutlej, Chenab and Ravi rivers, the Provincial Disaster…
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Climate-driven floods push Pakistan to confront water infrastructure failures
ISLAMABAD: As record monsoon floods batter Pakistan’s Punjab province, officials are calling for urgent investment in dams and water infrastructure, arguing that India’s stronger…
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Pakistan evacuates 435,000 as monsoon floods kill 20 in Punjab
ISLAMABAD: Twenty people have died in Pakistan’s Punjab this week and more than 435,000 residents have been evacuated as record monsoon floods continue to sweep across the…
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Pakistan threatens action against resorts, housing societies on riverbeds
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Climate Change Minister Musadik Malik on Friday warned wealthy business tycoons of action against resorts, hotels and housing societies built on riverbeds…
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Half a million people stranded by heavy flooding evacuated in Pakistan
In Punjab province, all three major rivers overflowed simultaneously, for the first time in the country’s history.
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Pakistan evacuates half a million people stranded by floods
LAHORE, Pakistan: Nearly half a million people have been displaced by flooding in eastern Pakistan after days of heavy rain swelled rivers, relief officials said Saturday, as they…
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Floods in Pakistan’s Punjab kill 30, displace over 1.5 million as rivers swell
ISLAMABAD: At least 30 people have been killed and more than 1.5 million affected as high floods in the Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej rivers submerged over 2,300 villages across…
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Urban flooding hits Lahore and Peshawar as Pakistan reels from fresh monsoon spell
ISLAMABAD: Urban flooding paralyzed parts of Peshawar and Lahore on Saturday as a new spell of monsoon rains battered Pakistan, while the country’s eastern Punjab province…
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Pakistan warns of glacial floods in north as raging rivers inundate Punjab
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s meteorological authority on Saturday issued a warning of imminent Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) in the high mountains of the north, even as…
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Floods in Pakistan’s Punjab kill 33, nearly 750,000 evacuated as rivers swell
ISLAMABAD: At least 33 people have been killed due to torrential rains and floods in Pakistan’s Punjab this week, a senior official confirmed on Sunday, as authorities ramp up…
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Pakistan’s Punjab braces for more rains, cross-border flooding with 33 dead, 8 injured
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province braced for heavy monsoon rains and more cross-border flooding from India on Monday, as officials put the death toll at 33 from deadly…