Seawater intrusion into Pakistan's Indus delta, where the Indus River meets the Arabian Sea in the south of the country, has triggered the collapse of farming and fishing communities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/07/climate-change/delta-pakistan-indus-sinks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #pakistan #climatechange #environment #drought
The downing of a French-made Indian Rafale fighter jet during a May skirmish with Pakistan was due to an Indian intelligence failure concerning the range of a China-made PL-15 missile fired by a Pakistani J-10 fighter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/04/asia-pacific/pakistan-india-fighter-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #india #pakistan #china #defense
German double Olympic biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier has died after a mountaineering accident in Pakistan, her management and local authorities confirmed on Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/olympics/2025/07/31/dahlmeier-dies-mountaineering-accident/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #olympics #lauradahlmeier #pakistan #mountaineering
Trump's lunch meeting with Pakistan's military chief prompted a private diplomatic protest from India in a warning to Washington about risks to their bilateral ties while New Delhi is recalibrating relations with China as a hedge, officials and analysts said.
The meeting and other tensions in the U.S.-India relationship, have cast a shadow in trade negotiations.
Ahmed Raza is invisible in the eyes of his government, unable to study or work because, like millions of other Pakistanis, he lacks identification papers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/22/asia-pacific/society/without-papers-millions-pakistanis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #pakistan
Pakistanis are increasingly ditching the national grid in favour of solar power, prompting a boom in rooftop panels and spooking a government weighed down by billions of dollars of power sector debt. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/17/energy/pakistan-solar-national-grid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #pakistan #solar #renewables #energy
Karachi is a striking example of how rising temperatures can turn cities into pressure cookers, as its 17 million residents endure overlapping crises of toxic air, flooding, poor waste disposal and climate change. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/15/climate-change/when-its-this-hot-we-are-enduring-not-living/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #pakistan #asia #climatechange #heatwaves
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"Pakistan exemplifies the cruel arithmetic of climate change. Each year, climate disasters and environmental degradation cost the country $3–14 billion, a staggering burden for an economy in crisis.
The World Bank has warned that if trends continue, #ClimateChange could shrink #Pakistan’s GDP by 18–20% by 2050. This is not a distant danger but an economic emergency."
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Events in Iran are likely to reinforce North Korea’s belief that nuclear weapons ensure regime survival, with Pakistan and Libya providing lessons on how to get them and why giving them up can be fatal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/24/world/kim-jong-uns-nuclear-lessons/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #northkorea #kimjongun #pakistan #india #israel #iran #libya #nuclearweapons #defense
Pakistan condemned the U.S.’s bombing of nuclear sites in Iran while at the same time taking steps to build stronger ties with President Donald Trump, suggesting limits to how far Islamabad will go in supporting Tehran. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/24/asia-pacific/politics/pakistan-us-strikes-iran-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #pakistan #iran #middleeast #middleeast #israel #us #donaldtrump
