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UK MP Claudia Webbe. File photo LONDON: UK MP Claudia Webbe has asked the world to cancel Pakistan’s international debts amid devastating floods that have wreaked havoc across the country pushing inflation to a 47-year high . The call from the UK lawmaker came as Pakistan deals with the worst climate disaster with officials saying more than 33 million people are affected -- one in every seven Pakistanis -- and reconstruction work will cost more than $10 billion. Rains, described by UN chief Antonio Guterres as a "monsoon on steroids" have claimed hundreds of lives since June, unleashing powerful floods that have washed away swathes of vital crops and damaged or destroyed more than a million homes. Read more:  Floods destroyed 118 districts, caused Rs2,000bn loss MP Claudia Webbe joined several other international figures who have supported Pakistan saying the country is facing a crisis which is caused by the developed world. “Inflation in Pakistan is at an all

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane landing at an airport. — AFP/file TEHRAN: Two Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) planes narrowly escaped mid-air disaster on Sunday when they came dangerously close to each other over Iranian territory. Both the planes were on the same route and altitude due to alleged negligence of the Iranian Air Traffic Control (ATC), which is said to have cleared the same altitude for both of the PIA planes, Daily Dawn reported. According to details, a PIA Boeing 777 was en route from Islamabad to Dubai while the airline’s other aircraft Airbus A320 was heading from Doha to Peshawar when they came dangerously close to each other over the Iranian airspace near the UAE. Sensing the danger, the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) of the planes got activated and one of the aircraft was asked to ascend and the other descended as per standard practice, the publication reported. TCAS is installed on all the planes and automatically