Benazir Shah
Reporter, Pakistan at Newsweek
Won the 2013 U.N. Correspondents Association Award for Newsweek’s coverage of the polio campaign. Editor @GeoFactCheck
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3 weeks ago |
geo.tv | Benazir Shah
LAHORE: For the second consecutive year, April in Pakistan arrived not with a bloom, but with blistering heat. Across large swathes of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan, temperatures soared past 40 degrees Celsius, weeks before the official onset of summer. “In the last two years, Pakistan has not been experiencing spring”, Muhammad Irfan Virk, the deputy director at the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) in Islamabad, told The News. “April is becoming increasingly warmer and hotter.
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3 weeks ago |
thenews.com.pk | Benazir Shah
LAHORE: For the second consecutive year, April in Pakistan arrived not with a bloom, but with blistering heat. Across large swathes of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan, temperatures soared past 40 degrees Celsius, weeks before the official onset of summer. “In the last two years, Pakistan has not been experiencing spring”, Muhammad Irfan Virk, the deputy director at the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) in Islamabad, told The News. “April is becoming increasingly warmer and hotter.
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1 month ago |
geo.tv | Benazir Shah
LAHORE: A new local government bill in Punjab grants sweeping authority to unelected deputy commissioners (DCs), sidelining elected officials and raising alarms about democratic backsliding in Pakistan’s most populous province. Tabled by the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on March 7 in the Punjab Assembly, the bill is currently under review in a standing committee, where it has come under fire not just from opposition lawmakers but also from members of the ruling party.
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1 month ago |
thenews.com.pk | Benazir Shah
LAHORE: A new local government bill in Punjab grants sweeping authority to unelected deputy commissioners (DCs), sidelining elected officials and raising alarms about democratic backsliding in Pakistan’s most populous province. Tabled by the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on March 7 in the Punjab Assembly, the bill is currently under review in a standing committee, where it has come under fire not just from opposition lawmakers but also from members of the ruling party.
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2 months ago |
geo.tv | Benazir Shah
LAHORE: Last September, as the wheat sowing season approached in Punjab, 39-year-old farmer Ayaz Sami sat in his home in Bahawalnagar, listening carefully to Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz speak on television. "I want to tell farmers to cultivate as much wheat as you can, without fear," Maryam said. "I promise I will not let you suffer a loss." The promise was followed by advertisements promoting incentives, such as free tractors for farmers who expanded their wheat cultivation.
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In most parts of Punjab, temperatures are crossing the mid-40s today. This is the fourth (or fifth) heatwave advisory since April, yet there’s still no word from the Punjab government on what it plans to do on an emergency basis and in the long term.
Sindh and Balochistan were identified as the most climatically extreme regions. Sindh experienced a staggering 94% increase in annual rainfall and recorded the hottest day of the year at Mohenjo-Daro, where the temperature soared to 52.5°C on May 26, according to the Economic
Also from the Pakistan Economic Survey 2024–25, the trade activity of Gwadar Port over the years. https://t.co/rVZxEgbQcs
