Pakistan flooding

Pakistan appealed Saturday to the international community for an “immense humanitarian response” to unprecedented flooding that has left at least 1,265 people dead. The request came even as planes carried supplies to the impoverished…

Hours after returning to Canada from Pakistan, a Calgary businessman said he got word floodwaters hit the same area where he had been helping people with disabilities move out of the way of the impending deluge. Mohammad Farhan…

Officials in Pakistan raised concern Wednesday over the spread of waterborne diseases among thousands of flood victims as waters from powerful monsoon rains began to recede in many parts of the country. Massive flooding from the rains…

Living thousands of miles away, Calgary resident Ahmer Memon is constantly worrying about family in Pakistan affected by record-breaking floods that have wreaked havoc across the country. “Every day, we are spending half a day on the…

The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air holding more moisture, extreme weather getting wilder, melting glaciers, people living in harm’s way, and poverty. They combined in vulnerable…

ISLAMABAD: The overall death toll from floods across Pakistan reached 1,061 on Monday while rising levels of the gushing Indus river threatened more deluges in the lower-lying plains of Punjab and Sindh provinces before emptying into the …

The federal government will provide $5 million in funding in an effort to help “scale up” the humanitarian response to flooding in Pakistan, Global Affairs Canada announced Monday. Canada will provide emergency assistance including…

International aid was reaching Pakistan on Monday, as the military and volunteers desperately tried to evacuate many thousands stranded by widespread flooding driven by “monster monsoons” that have claimed more than 1,000 lives this…

Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan topped 1,000 since mid-June, officials said Sunday, as the country’s climate minister called the deadly monsoon season “a serious climate catastrophe.” Flash flooding from the heavy rains…

The Government of Canada issued a fresh travel notice for citizens travelling to Pakistan on Saturday as heavy flooding triggered by monsoon rains continues to unleash havoc across much of the South Asian country. “There are certain…