More than two million cases of malaria are expected in Pakistan in the coming months in the wake of the country’s devastating floods.
The worst of the flooding may be over but prospects are bleak in Pakistan, where disease and the coming winter threaten to intensify the crisis.
More than 10-million people have been left without shelter in Pakistan’s floods for the past six weeks, the UN said on Tuesday.
A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police station in north-west Pakistan on Monday killing at least 19 people.
The message in black Urdu lettering on a white sack of supplies for flood relief says it all: "In tough times, the Pakistan army is with you".
Angry outbursts by flood victims reliant on scarce aid are hampering relief work in Pakistan, the Red Cross has said.
A blast ripped through a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 43 people, the second major attack this week.
Relief efforts in flood-ravaged Pakistan are being stretched by the "unprecedented scale" of the disaster, the United Nations said on Thursday.
For some of the children caught up in Pakistan’s floods, the most frightening moment of their lives was the day before the water hit.
A month after torrential monsoon rains triggered Pakistan’s worst natural disaster on record, flood waters are starting to recede.
A team of 11 rescuers from the Johannesburg emergency services have arrived in Pakistan on a relief mission to the flood-stricken country.
Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began.
Shah-e-Roon doesn’t have the energy, money or support from Pakistan’s government to help Madyan recover from floods that decimated the small town.
Thousands of people fled on Friday from the southern Pakistani town of Thatta after the swollen Indus river burst its banks.
South Africa have agreed to play an additional Twenty20 match against Pakistan to raise funds for the country’s flood victims.
Pakistan faces a critical risk of yet more flooding in the next three days in its fertile southern plains, officials warned on Tuesday.
More than $800-million has been donated or pledged to help Pakistan’s flood victims, the foreign minister said on Sunday.
Floods are threatening to wreak havoc in more areas of south Pakistan in a catastrophe that has made the government more unpopular.
Pakistan is courting IMF help to alleviate the threat of economic ruin as enormous floods wipe out farmland and industry.
The United Nations now says that 55% of its $460-million appeal for emergency funds for the next three months has been received.
