monsoon

A committee of HDA and WASA officials is set up to look for drainage problems.

Three women were killed by a flashflood in Banna village in Shamlai Tehsil, 45 km from the district headquarter

Important vaccines, medicines for the rainy season missing from the allied hospitals.

Flood damages 80 houses in Rahimabad, Jahangira Par and Jahangira Deobandi and several shops in Jahangira Market.

Oxfam says 37,000 people still in camps in Sindh, 800,000 families nationwide without proper homes one year on.

The nullahs have been cleaned and potholes covered. All zonal centres have been reactivated to receive complaints.

The long awaited bridges missed badly as the locals remain cut off from capital.

Heavy downpour lashes the twin cities, five of a family die as roof caves in, four drown in Leh.

The waters were a blessing in disguise for peasants fleeing oppressive lands.

Irked residents complain that rain adds to their problems.

It remains for India and Pakistan not to get locked into a zero sum game.

Met office predicts normal rainy season; says strategies in place to minimise losses.

Met Office records 49 mm rain in the city and 25 mm at the airport.

With a week between them, how different Pakistan foreign minister’s message is going to be from what Americans left.

Locals suspect gas company staffers’ complicity; police investigating.

Zahrah’s budgie goes from loving mother to serial killer.

No monetary compensation given to over 300 flood-affected farmers.

Water level in the drainage canal went above ‘alert’ level; rescuers and locals prepare for heavy monsoons.

Water level in drain recedes as rain stops.

The oldest katchi basti in Islamabad has deteriorated since it was made in 1978.

The mark may easily be achieved this year, says exporter.

Flood forecasting system using satellite-based rainfall data will be installed in Pakistan’s government agencies.

police hunting for clues and suspects in the monsoon rains.

Emergency wards and OPDs fill with patients, hospitals face difficulties in providing inhalers and other medicines.

Villages in Sindh, Punjab and Azad Kashmir already under water.

The plan aims to improve flood preparations and efficiency in dealing with any emergency situation.

Indian investigators find severed head at blast site, claim attackers used heavy Mumbai monsoon to their advantage.

Special teams formed for disaster response, cleaning of streams ordered.

No weekly holidays for staff from June 15.