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Pakistan's Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reform, Ahsan Iqbal, speaks with Reuters during an interview in Islamabad, Pakistan August 29, 2022. — Reuters More than 1,100 people have been killed in the historic floods. Torrential rains wash away roads, crops, homes, and bridges. Pakistan blames climate change and calls for international help. Pakistan, with lowest carbon footprint, blames developed world. ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal said Monday that it might take five years to rebuild and rehabilitate the nation, while in the near term it will be confronted with acute food shortages. Unprecedented flash floods caused by historic monsoon rains have washed away roads, crops, infrastructure and bridges, killing more than 1,100 people in recent weeks and affecting more than 33 million, over 15% of the country's 220 million population. Sherry Rehman, the climate change minister, has called the situation

A 16 year-old elephant, Madhubala, reacts after receiving a dart for sedation before undergoing a dental procedure at the zoo in Karachi, Pakistan August 17, 2022. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro KARACHI: Madhubala, a 16-year-old elephant in Pakistan suffering for years from dental infection and pain caused by a broken tusk, finally got relief on Wednesday after undergoing treatment while under unique standing sedation. Madhubala is one of four African elephants being treated in Karachi by an eight-member team from global animal welfare group Four Paws, which in 2020 relocated Kaavan — an elephant dubbed the world's loneliest — to Cambodia from Islamabad. Their visit follows an order by the Sindh High Court (SHC) in Karachi last year for Four Paws to assess the health of the animals after local animal rights activists had raised concerns in court about their well-being. Named after a legendary Indian actress, Madhubala's eyes were taped shut, her legs tied to side-grills to s

BHATINDA, INDIA: Tears of joy rolled down his wizened cheeks when Indian Sika Khan met his Pakistani brother for the first time since being separated by Partition in 1947. Sikh labourer Sika was just six months old when he and his elder brother Sadiq Khan were torn apart as Britain split the subcontinent at the end of colonial rule. This year marks the 75th anniversary of Partition, during which bloodshed killed possibly more than one million people, families like Sika’s were cleaved apart and two independent nations — Pakistan and India — were created. In this picture Indian Sikh labourer Sika Khan meets his brother Sadiq Khan at Kartarpur Corridor. — AFP Sika’s father and sister were killed in communal massacres, but Sadiq, just 10 years old, managed to flee to Pakistan. "My mother could not bear the trauma and jumped into the river and killed herself," Sika said at his simple brick house in Bhatinda, a district in the western Indian state of Punjab, which bore