Humanitarian Crisis

Pakistan's Tree-Planting Push Has A Sweetener: More Honey

Japanese Aid Worker’s Legacy Lives On In Irrigated Afghan Villages

Pakistanis Face Chronic Fuel Shortages

Coronavirus Hits Pakistani Labor Hard In Gulf Countries

For decades, remittances from hundreds of thousands of expatriate workers in the Gulf have proved a lifeline for Pakistan’s fledgling economy.

Pakistan Faces Once-In-A-Generation Locust Threat Amid Pandemic

Locust Invasion Wreaks Havoc On Pakistan's Crops, Orchards

An invasion of locusts has spread across Pakistan, officials said, causing damage to crops and orchards and posing a threat to food security in an impoverished Islamic nation already struggling to tackle a virus pandemic that has caused more than 1,300 deaths.

Beekeeping In Pakistan Rattled By The Coronavirus

A lockdown prompted by the coronavirus pandemic has destroyed most of this year’s honey crop in Pakistan while hitting beekeepers and traders with millions of dollars in losses.

Coronavirus Pandemic Obliterates Pakistan’s Tourist Haven

The coronavirus pandemic has devastated tourism in an alpine valley of northwestern Pakistan that had barely recovered from years of Taliban control and the military operations that displaced the region’s entire population a decade ago.

Pakistan’s Minority Provinces Decry Gov’t Motives In Dividing Federal Resources

In a sign that efforts to roll back the autonomy of Pakistan’s provinces is snowballing into a crisis, politicians in three minority provinces in the country have criticized the recently constituted government commission tasked with dividing federal resources between Islamabad and four provinces.

Amid Pandemic, Pakistan Looks For Economic Opportunity

As the world grapples with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, one country is possibly turning the challenge into a prospect for greater economic gain.

As 'Green Stimulus', Pakistan Sets Virus-Idled To Work Planting Trees