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The government is kicking out 18 international charities after rejecting their final appeal to stay in the country, a move that an aid group spokesman said on Thursday would affect millions of desperately poor people and lead to tens of millions of aid dollars lost.
The majority of the (...)
The Supreme Court-appointed has regretted failure on part of the state to address the grievances of the quake-affected people. It also blamed the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra) for failing to update its project-related information thus resulting in pilferage, (...)
ISLAMABAD, 27 October 2015 (IRIN) - Pakistan added detailed seismic provisions to its national building code in 2007, two years after an earthquake in the Kashmir region killed more than 80,000 people and destroyed countless constructions. They have gone largely unenforced, compounding the (...)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 9 2015 (IPS) - Jauhar Shah lost everything. His house came tumbling down while his family was sleeping. He survived but his wife and daughter did not. The October 26 tremor measuring 8.1 Richter scale changed his life forever.
“We underwent immense hardships because our (...)
A powerful earthquake struck Badakshan Province in Afghanistan on 26 October, and has affected thousands of people across a large area of North-West Pakistan. According to the US Geological Service the magnitude 7.5 quake struck at 09:09 (UTC), was 196 kilometers (121 miles) deep, and the (...)
At the Federal executive committee meeting of Labour Party Pakistan held yesterday in Lahore, Younas Rahu, general secretary Labour Party Sindh reported that 4000 rain affected families have been helped by the relief efforts by LPP. They belong to seven districts including Nawabshah, Sanghar, (...)
September 14, 2011 — Green Left Weekly — The 2011 floods were the worst in Pakistan’s history. Twenty million people were affected and about 2000 lost their lives.
Now there is record flooding for the second year in a row.
“This is not a natural disaster”, Farooq Tariq , the national spokesperson (...)
One year ago during the month of July/August, the floodwaters that ravaged southern parts of Pakistan have long receded. Though gone are the makeshift tent camps on roadsides revival of normal life and livelihood still remain a challenge. Thousands continue a daily struggle to support their (...)
THE flood inquiry commission formed in the wake of the 2010 floods, under the Supreme Court’s directive, has unveiled that a major cause of the devastating breach of Tori dyke was brazen negligence by the irrigation department.
The report acknowledges that most embankments are not being (...)
Everyone I meet is angry with the government. The government has announced Rs. 25 000 for every family hit by floods. But that is not enough to build even one room. To receive this grant one must also have the so-called Watan Card and in order to get that you must be able to identify yourself (...)
The Labour Relief Committee (LRC) is now in its fourth month of activities and we would like to thank you for supporting it and give you some updates on the work we are doing.
We have committees of volunteers in four provinces, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab who are (...)
Shortage of funds leaves little room for the government other than either to slash development budget or seek foreign debts.
Cameras are turning off, newspapers spaces squeezed, official visits to flood areas reduced to almost none and attention by political parties and civil society groups is (...)
Speakers at a conference on Thursday emphasised the need to lay off all loans taken by farmers and small growers in the flood affected areas of Pakistan.
This they said at a two-day conference on ‘Flood and Beyond: Recovery, Reconstruction and Reforms’ organised jointly by Pakistan Institute of (...)
Several nationally known television and theater artists from Norway have collected rupees 1,480,135 (100670 NOK) in a bid to help the flood victims in Pakistan. The amount has been sent to Labour Education Foundation (LEF) one of the eight organizations that are part of Labour Relief Campaign, (...)
Dear Friends,
The Labour Relief Committee (LRC) is now in its 3rd month of activities and we would like to thank you for supporting it and give you some updates on the work we are doing.
We are working in 4 provinces: Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab. Our teams of volunteers (...)
Lenders urged to write off Pakistan’s debts
By Latif Baloch
Friday, 15 Oct, 2010
KARACHI, Oct 14: A large number of people on Thursday participated in a rally taken out to observe the ‘Day of Action’ in response to a call given by several civil society organisations in their campaign to force (...)
There is a visible relation between international debt politics and of IFIs and increasing poverty in Pakistan. Therefore the Pakistani civil society members want all foreign debts of Pakistan to be canceled, owed to bilateral and multilateral creditors, besides an immediate freeze on foreign (...)
Over 100,000 leaflets are being distributed by a team of motivated 16 young activists in Lahore on Tangas (horse ridden carts). Today is the fourth day of this activism. It will end today alongside with thousands internationally shouting for Pakistan for cancellation of foreign debt. A rally in (...)
An interview with Farooq Tariq, member of CADTM Pakistan, Labour Relief Campaign (LRC) and spokeperson for Labour Party Pakistan (LPP )- Lahore, 11 October 2010.
Stéphanie Jacquemont (SJ): The Labour Relief Campaign, which comprises various organizations including CADTM Pakistan, is now (...)
TheNews, October 7, 2010
Parliamentarians from across the globe urged the governments, donor countries and international financial institutions to extend full support to Pakistan to meet the challenges posed by recent floods, a fax message from Geneva said on Thursday.
They unanimously (...)
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