A bus in southwestern Pakistan plunged into a ravine and caught on fire, killing at least 40 people aboard, a government official said on Sunday. The bus had been traveling overnight between Quetta, the capital of Balochistan Province, to the port city of Karachi when it crashed into a pillar of a bridge and fell […]
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Power Outage Sweeps Pakistan, Dropping Millions Into Darkness
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Millions of Pakistanis lost electricity Monday as major power outage swept across the country, the longest in recent years and a breakdown that put the focus back on the country’s battered and poorly maintained power grid. Pakistan has been plagued by frequent outages and blackouts in recent years, and the latest to […]
Scenes from the Devastating Flooding in Pakistan
Months of rain has swollen rivers and inundated communities across Pakistan, killing more than 1,100 people.
Pakistan Hit by Deadly Floods of ‘Epic Proportions’
More than 1,000 have died since mid-June from flooding that a senior official called a “climate-induced humanitarian disaster.”