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ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Friday picked Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as the party's president while Maryam Nawazwas chosen as the senior vice president.The decision was taken in a meeting of the PML-N…

KHAIRPUR: Like every year, Arz Mohammed had planted his little patch of land in southern Pakistan with cotton. The crop would earn him enough so that, as he puts it, his family of five wouldn't be reduced to begging. Then came the deluge.…

ISLAMABAD: The recent cataclysmic floods that have ravaged Pakistan may have caused over $40 billion in economic losses and damages, according to an initial assessment. The new number is even far higher than the $30 billion figure given by…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's catastrophic floods resulted in the death of nearly 1,300 people in the country even as relief operations continue. The death toll since June has reached 1,290 with 29 people dying in the last 24 hours, the National…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan government has set up a nodal disaster agency to provide an institutional response to the devastating floods caused by record monsoon rains that has displaced more than 33 million or one-seventh of the country's…