The death toll reached 115, due to flooding after recent heavy rain in parts of Pakistan's provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa (KPK), with others injured. Most of the deaths were caused by roof collapses, landslides and electric shocks. A number of cities received over 130mm of rain. Pakistan's meteorological office issued a severe weather warning for northeast Punjab and Kashmir, saying more intense rain was expected which could trigger…

Thirty-year-old Marubhat, a resident of Samo Bheel village - a two-hour drive from Chhachhro, Pakistan- decided to end her life on 23 August 2014, after she had failed to provide food for her children, as reported by Dawn Newspaper on 2nd September. Soon after her death, her home was visited by reporters and social workers where during interviews her family attributed the cause of her death to persistent financial problems.…

"There's No School Tomorrow, There's No Children Left There (in Gaza)". These were the chants from a ‘pro-Israeli' protest in support of the Zionist state's bloodthirsty military offensive in Gaza, ‘Operation Protective Edge'. Loathsome as these words are, they represent an accurate description of the aims of the campaign of slaughter that the murderous Jewish entity's regime has unleashed upon the innocent Muslims of the world's largest open-air prison. Half…

"If anybody a year ago had said the United States and Iran might today be cooperating in dealing with a major international crisis, they would have been regarded as deranged."--- The Guardian Editorial Over the years, the official narrative advocated by both Washington and Tehran is that America and Iran are adversaries competing with one another for influence in the Middle East. But the civil war in Syria and more…