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  • Pakistan expects rice order from Indonesia

    Pakistan expects Indonesia to place orders for its rice in coming days, said Irfan Ahmed Sheikh, the outgoing chairman of the Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP), as the Southeast Asian country seeks alternative sources of the grain. “There will be a potential for Pakistan in coming days. We are expecting orders from Indonesia,” Sheikh…

  • Almost 10,000 people infected with dengue fever in Pakistan

    A team of World Health Organization (WHO) is arriving on Sunday in Pakistan to help cope with dengue fever that has affected almost 10,000 people in the country, the Pakistani news agency INN reported, referring to official sources. In recent weeks, dengue fever has rapidly spread across Pakistan but the country’s north-eastern Punjab province has…

  • Pakistan floods: Authorities ‘struggle to provide aid’

    Authorities in Pakistan are still struggling to reach those worst affected by floods, weeks after devastating monsoon rains in the south. Aid workers, who are also affected by flooding, have had difficulty getting help to the thousands stranded on higher ground, officials told the BBC Officials say 8 million people have now been affected by…