Pakistan: Pakistan: IRSA seeks proposals from provinces on new water accord
Source: Frontier PostCountry: PakistanF.P. ReportISLAMABAD: IRSA has directed all the provinces to prepare new proposals for water distribution to the next meeting likely to be held next week, an...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Afghanistan: Residents eating shrubs to avert starving
Source: Frontier PostCountry: AfghanistanUpdated on 1/9/2002 9:39:20 AM BONAVASH (Agencies): The village of Bonavash is slowly starving. Besieged by the Taliban and crushed by years of drought, people...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Afghanistan: Heavy rains, cold torment refugees at camps
Source: Frontier PostCountry: AfghanistanUpdated on 1/16/2002 9:39:58 AM HERAT (Agencies): It was hard to say whether the tears smearing the face of Leila's newborn baby were the child's or the...
View ArticlePakistan: Pakistan - Irrigation shortage: Agri yield target unlikely this year
Source: Frontier PostCountry: PakistanISLAMABAD (APP): Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture Khair Muhammad Junejo has said that farmers should adopt new techniques of water management to overcome...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Afghanistan: Thousands of refugees who fled Taliban flood Kabul
Source: Frontier PostCountry: AfghanistanUpdated on 3/23/2002 9:35:37 AM KABUL (SANA): The rented bus hummed with excitement. Mojeeb, 12, clutched a parrot cage and a certificate from an English...
View ArticlePakistan: Pakistan: Plea to declare all districts calamity-hit
Source: Frontier PostCountry: PakistanF.P. ReportPESHAWAR: The provincial Secretary-General of National Awami Party Pakistan (NAPP), Sardar Hussain Bacha, has thanked the government for declaring a few...
View ArticlePakistan: Pakistan: Drought relief package - Provinces to get Rs 6bn assistance
Source: Frontier PostCountry: PakistanISLAMABAD: The federal government is providing Rs.6 billion from the Federal PSDP to the provincial governments for implementing Drought Emergency Relief...
View ArticlePakistan: Pakistan: Rescue operation continues unabated
Source: Frontier PostCountry: PakistanISLAMABAD (NNI): The rescue teams comprising troops of Northern Light Infantry (NLI) on Tuesday continue struggle to rescue over 5,000 homeless as well as injured...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Afghanistan: Efforts on to regrow fruit after drought
Source: Frontier PostCountry: AfghanistanKANDAHAR (Agencies): Glass pipes where grape juice once flowed are now clogged with dust. Birds swoop through a maze of conveyer belts before flying to their...
View ArticleIran (Islamic Republic of): Afghanistan/Iran: Flow of Hirmand river approved
Source: Frontier PostCountry: Iran (Islamic Republic of)KANDAHAR (NNI): Afghan Minister for Housing and Urban Reconstruction, Youssef Pashtun, has said his government had approved the restoration in...
View ArticlePakistan: Pakistan: Drought-hit areas get aid
Source: Frontier PostCountry: PakistanF.P. Report ISLAMABAD: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has approved a grant-in-aid worth dollars 6,52,000 as emergency assistance to...
View ArticlePakistan: Army troops begin relief operation in Tharparkar, wheat supply...
Source: Frontier PostCountry: PakistanMONITORING DESK THARPARKAR – Army troops have been sent in to help Tharparkar affectees while distribution of wheat bags is also underway in the drought-hit areas...
View ArticlePakistan: Relief activities in Tharparkar
Source: Frontier PostCountry: PakistanF.P. Report Karachi: The Director General, PDMA Sindh, informed today that the relief activities in the drought hit districts of Tharparkar have entered in 20th...
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