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Pakistan has experienced an ongoing economic crisis as part of the 2022 political unrest. It has caused severe economic challenges for months due to which food, gas and oil prices have risen. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused fuel prices to rise worldwide. Excessive external borrowings by the country over the years raised the spectre ...
2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan floods. Since 6 March 2024, unseasonably heavy rains and resultant flash flooding in Afghanistan and Pakistan killed over 700 people, and injured many more. [7] [8] [failed verification] This extensively damaged infrastructure and agriculture. [8] [9] [10]
Property damage. ₨ 3.2 trillion ($14.9 billion) [4] From 15 June to October 2022, floods in Pakistan killed 1,739 people, [3] and caused ₨ 3.2 trillion ($14.8 billion) of damage and ₨ 3.3 trillion ($15.2 billion) of economic losses. [4] The immediate causes of the floods were heavier than usual monsoon rains and melting glaciers [5] that ...
Pakistan’s most populous province, Punjab, is shutting all schools for a week because of the heat, affecting an estimated 18 million students. ... It’s the latest climate-related disaster to ...
v. t. e. General elections, originally scheduled to be held in 2023, [3] were held in Pakistan on 8 February 2024 to elect the members of the 16th National Assembly. The Election Commission of Pakistan announced the detailed schedule on 15 December 2023.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan is part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).The virus was confirmed to have reached Pakistan on 26 February 2020, when two cases were recorded (a student in Karachi who had just returned from Iran and another person in the Islamabad Capital Territory).
In a delayed admission of the accidental missile launch 48 hours after the incident, the Indian Defense Ministry said on 11 March 2022 that "a technical malfunction led to the accidental firing of a missile" [8] and that it was "deeply regrettable". India also said that they have ordered a high-level Court of Enquiry to look into the incident.
The Pakistani Taliban ( Urdu: پاکستانی طالبان ), formally called the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan ( تحریکِ طالبان پاکستان, lit. 'Pakistani Taliban Movement', abbr. TTP ), is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed militant groups operating along the Afghan–Pakistani border. Formed in 2007 by ...