Arrivals of some items from upcountry trading centres showed a modest increase but the gaps were too large to be filled in by such supplies.

“The floodwaters have so far largely spared the banks, but only for the time being. The costs of the vast flood-related destruction

They were hesitant in the first place to rise to the occasion and belated in committing humanitarian assistance, which had crept

Making a strong appeal for aid to help Pakistan face one of the worst and biggest natural disaster of the recent history, UN Secretary-general

Water crisis incorporates a missing but critical dimension that deals with failure in water governance in either developing capacity

Many believe that this breach was a deliberate cut at the instance of influential persons including federal and provincial ministers

The cash-strapped provincial government has neither received any support from the centre nor has the international community

Nearly 700,000 acres of standing Kharif crops are under water or have been destroyed. The next wheat crop is now at a risk

Although it is too early to assess the huge financial loss, pundits are working on different scenarios to address the problem

According to the information received from districts Kandhkot-Kashmore, Shikarpur, Sukkur, Jacobabad, Kambar-Shahdadkot till filling

Growth prospects for key Gulf Arab economies worsened slightly in 2010 as oil prices remain volatile following Europe’s debt woes

The country’s potential for alternative energy generation is beyond doubt. “Pakistan is geographically well-placed

Pakistan is also being extended multipurpose aid packages to arrest its growing poverty but now donors assume that delivering aid

The magnitude of devastation differed in each case, depending upon the extent of rainfall but each time immediate relief and rehabilitation

Last week, the Sensex, the benchmark index on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), touched a 30-month high