KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Massive monsoon rains lashed Pakistan on Wednesday, inundating streets, uprooting trees, and killing at least six persons, officials and local media reported. Eight deaths were reported from northeastern Punjab province, mainly provincial capital Lahore, which was hit by record-breaking rains on Tuesday. A minor and two...
ISLAMABAD (AA): Cyclone Biparjoy passed by Pakistan’s coastal areas, killing two persons, and damaging crops and houses, authorities said on Saturday. Causing thunderstorms and heavy rains in some areas, the cyclonic storm converted into a depression over southwest Rajasthan (India) and southeast Pakistan (Tharparker), the country’s Meteorolog...
ISLAMABAD (AFP): Pakistan climate change minister Sherry Rehman tweeted on Friday morning that her country had been “largely spared the full force” of Cyclone Biparjoy. But residents stayed bunkered down as more than 30 centimetres (12 inches) of rainfall was forecast for some coastal areas of Pakistan on Friday and Saturday, with ...
ISLAMABAD / KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): As authorities in Pakistan and India evacuated more than 175,000 people with Cyclone Biparjoy nearing the coasts of both countries, those taking shelter are praying for minimal damage as the cyclone is set to make landfall Thursday evening. On Thursday afternoon, India’s weather department said the lan...
Mandvi, India (AFP): Crashing waves pounded the coastline of India and Pakistan on Thursday, hours before the landfall of a powerful cyclone that has prompted mass evacuations. Nearly 150,000 people have fled the predicted path of Cyclone Biparjoy, which means “disaster” in Bengali, with meteorologists warning it could devastate ho...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Rescue personnel Tuesday scrambled to relocate over 100,000 people from Pakistan’s southeastern coastal belt as cyclone Biparjoy drew closer. Over 35,000 people from the coastal areas of Pakistan have already been evacuated, while operations are underway to relocate another 65,000, Salman Shah, the director genera...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): The Pakistani government has ordered an immediate evacuation of over 50,000 residents of the country’s southeastern coastal belt as cyclone Biparjoy is heading towards Pakistan and neighboring India, an official said on Monday. Evacuation orders have been issued for the coastal towns of Shahbandar, Keti Bandar and...
ISLAMABAD (AA): At least 28 people, including women and children, died after heavy rains battered parts of Pakistan on Saturday, local media reported. At least 145 others were also injured due to the rains in some parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces, according to Geo News broadcaster. At least 69 houses were partially damaged [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA): Powerful cyclonic storm “Biparjoy” is moving across the Arabian Sea and is expected to hit the coasts of India and Pakistan soon. Pakistani meteorological authorities issued a warning ahead of the “Biparjoy” storm on Friday, urging fishermen not to venture out into the open sea from Monday onwards. Pakist...
MOSCOW (AA): Kazakhstan’s Emergency Ministry reported on Friday that a wildfire in the Semey-Ormany national reserve has engulfed an area of 30,000 hectares. The ministry said in a statement that more than 600 personnel, six helicopters and 168 pieces of equipment are involved in firefighting efforts. Residents of three villages in the A...
