Pakistan

A new study says human-caused climate change juiced the rainfall that triggered Pakistan’s floods by up to 50%.

Months of heavy monsoon rains and flooding have killed 1,391 people and affected 3.3 million in this South Asian nation while half a million people have become homeless.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived before dawn Friday on a two-day visit aimed at expressing his solidarity with Pakistan’s government and people over climate-induced floods that have killed 1,391 people since mid-June.

In flood-stricken Pakistan, where an unprecedented monsoon season has killed hundreds of people, the rains now threaten a famed archeological site dating back 4,500 years, the site’s chief official said Tuesday.

More than 1,300 people have been killed and millions have lost their homes in flooding caused by unusually heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan this year that many experts have blamed on climate change.

Pakistani police have filed terrorism charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, escalating political tensions in the country as the ex-premier holds mass rallies seeking to return to office.

A lawyer says a Pakistani man sentenced to life in prison in 2019 for strangling his sister — a model on social media — has been acquitted of murder.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met Sunday with leaders from Poland and Pakistan in a flurry of diplomacy on the sidelines of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

Among the tightened social-distancing rules taking effect for two weeks from Friday are a ban on eating in restaurants after 6pm

A report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence warns “climate change will increasingly exacerbate risks to U.S. national security interests.”

Ricult is helping small farmers in Thailand and Pakistan boost yields through artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The Chinese Communist Party has previously said that it does not engage in industrial espionage. 

Pakistan’s economy is still teetering on the brink of crisis — the country faces record inflation that is pushing the price of daily commodities higher.

More than 100 world leaders, including U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping, have committed to end deforestation by 2030.

A powerful earthquake has collapsed at least one coal mine and as many as 100 mud houses in a remote, mountainous part of southwest Pakistan

Pakistan has been accused of covertly aiding the Taliban during their insurgency in Afghanistan, while also being an U.S. ally — a charge that Pakistan denies.

Pakistani police say a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a security checkpoint in restive southwestern Pakistan, killing at least three paramilitary troops and wounding 15 others.

If the world turns its back on Afghanistan, there will likely be a security vacuum that may be filled by “undesirable elements,” said Moeed Yusuf.

Pakistan’s interior ministry and police say that a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a vehicle carrying Chinese workers in the restive southwest, killing two Pakistani children playing by the roadside

Global crypto adoption has taken off in the last year, up 881%, with Vietnam, India and Pakistan firmly in the lead, according to new data from Chainalysis.