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Pakistan’s Imran Khan vows to fight to ‘last drop of blood’ in first rally since being shot

Ousted PM calls off march on Islamabad to avoid further chaos but continues to press for early elections, possibly by pulling his PTI party out of regional assemblies

The Guardian - AU · Nov 27, 2022

First heat, then floods wipe out farms in Pakistan's chilli capital

Near Kunri, a southern Pakistani town known as Asia's chilli capital, 40-year old farmer Leman Raj rustles through dried plants looking for any of the bright red chillis in his largely destroyed crop which may have survived.

Reuters · Nov 2, 2022

Alarmed by suicide attack, China and Pakistan work together on probe

It was the kind of attack Pakistani authorities had dreaded.

Reuters · Oct 31, 2022

Women stranded in Pakistan floods take risky trips to give birth

Rubina Mallah took a perilous, three-hour boat journey across flood waters to get to the nearest hospital in time to give birth to her baby son, as the roads leading to the clinic in the southern Pakistani city of Sehwan were submerged.

Reuters · Sep 7, 2022

Pakistan looks 'like a sea' after floods, PM says, as 18 more die

Parts of Pakistan seemed "like a sea", Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday, after visiting some of the flood-hit areas that cover as much as a third of the South Asian nation, where 18 more deaths took the toll from days of rain to 1,343.

Reuters · Sep 7, 2022

Aid groups warn of growing plight in flood-hit Pakistan

Pakistan's armed forces rescued a further 2,000 people stranded by rising floodwaters, they said on Friday, while the country's best-known charity warned that only a small fraction of millions affected by the floods had been reached so far.

Reuters · Sep 2, 2022

Split families still suffer after 75 years of India-Pakistan partition

Ali Hasan Baqai and Abid Hasan Baqai, brothers split for 75 years by the partition of India and Pakistan, talk with their families on a video call, words and tears binding them but with no hope of reunion.

Reuters · Aug 13, 2022

Pakistanis plant trees to provide relief from scorching sun

Mulazim Hussain is proud of the trees he has planted.

Reuters · Jul 27, 2022

Millions in Pakistan without digital ID card: Rights activists

Activists say many lack Computerized National Identity Card as critics cite database breaches and privacy violations.

Al Jazeera · Jul 26, 2022

Flooding in Pakistan kills dozens as heavy monsoon rains lash the country

Intense floods killed dozens of people and left hundreds homeless in Pakistan, officials said on Saturday, as heavy monsoon rains battered the country.

Reuters · Jul 9, 2022