Using high-altitude cameras, system ‘automatically’ identifies fires and collapse of buildings

Industrialists demand immediate govt action to avert impending disaster

Country’s debt has soared by around Rs12 billion to post a composite figure of Rs81 trillion in this fiscal year

Amount is less than one-third of $10b committed for flood relief by donors at an international conference in January

More than 25 people also sustained injuries in torrential rains across K-P

Murad says forecasting technology could help govts make a contingency plan much before weather disasters take place

WHO has sounded the alarm over an impending second disaster of disease and death

Humans have failed to live with the understanding of nature

Managing twin disasters in a highly-polarised polity

Pakistan has many seismic zones and as many high-rises are vulnerable to earthquakes and not always structurally sound