World Bank adaptation funds slept through Pakistan’s record flooding

Pakistan's former Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Miftah Ismail (2nd from L) holds a meeting with World Bank officials in Washington on April 23, 2022. (Photo courtesy: Ministry of Finance)
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Updated 17 January 2023
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World Bank adaptation funds slept through Pakistan’s record flooding

January 17: Luavut Zahid at Climate Home News reported, When it was announced, the World Bank’s Solid Waste Emergency and Efficiency Project (Sweep) was touted as one of the lifelines that would help Pakistan’s biggest city, Karachi, with its urban flooding nightmare. But that hasn’t happened. Read More I 


Source says Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman met with Islamic Emirate leader

Updated 11 January 2024
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Source says Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman met with Islamic Emirate leader

January 10: TOLOnews has reported citing a source that Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, the leader of Pakistan's Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party, met with Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Islamic Emirate, Wednesday morning in Kandahar. Read more I