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Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered officials to put in place emergency measures in advance for Cyclone Biparjoy in the Arabian Sea that is likely to cause flooding and rainstorms in low-lying areas of Karachi and Sindh province. The Prime Minister's orders came in the wake of heavy rains in various areas of the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Pakistan's meteorological agency also issued an alert asking authorities to be prepared for Cyclone Biparjoy. Earlier, experts predicted that the cyclone would spare Pakistan from any devastation and would only cause strong winds accompanied by rain in the coastal areas. But the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) issued an alert late on Saturday night which said the cyclone over the east-central Arabian Sea was maintaining its intensity and had further tracked north-northeastward during the past 12 hours. It was 840 km away from the port city of Karachi and was heading towards the coastal areas of Sindh and Balochistan provinces. The cyclone is intensifying into an extremely severe cyclonic storm and could get stronger in the next 24 hours, reported The Dawn newspaper. The cyclone over the east-central Arabian Sea has formed an eye, indicating that the system has grown more organised and more powerful, chief meteorologist Sardar Sarfaraz was quoted as saying by the newspaper. According to him, the cyclone is currently directed towards the coastal areas of Karachi, Thatta, Sujawal, Badin, Tharparkar and ...

The government of Pakistan has taken a big step in its march toward autocracy by throwing a blanket The ban seems to be the latest salvo in the state’s war on its most vocal and intransigent opponent. In recent weeks, members of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party have been arrested and jailed, while others quit. Khan himself could be facing arrest within weeks as the state builds its case against him, said Hassan Abbas, a professor of international relations at the National Defense University in Washington. Human rights defenders and journalists have shown little sympathy for Khan, who has tried to portray himself as the anti-establishment answer to all of Pakistan’s problems. There are concerns about clumsy censorship— Dawn newspaper Human Rights Watch (HRW) called out Khan’s government in its 2021 “The authorities expanded their use of draconian sedition and counterterrorism laws to stifle dissent, and strictly regulated civil society groups critical of government actions or policies. Authorities also cracked down on members and supporters of opposition political parties,” HRW said of Khan’s administration. (HRW last week This ban on media coverage of Khan and PTI was issued Wednesday by the state electronic media regulator, known as PEMRA. It forbids Khan and PTI figures from appearing on television and bans TV stations from broadcasting his speeches or press conferences. PTI’s communications director, Raoof Hassan, said that the ban will ensure that “nothing h...

Even by the standards of Pakistan’s perpetually unstable politics, the last ten weeks in the country have been exceptionally turbulent. Pakistan has a new government as of April 11 after Imran Khan was forced out via a vote of no confidence. The weeks leading up to the vote, from the filing of the motion on March 8 to the vote on April 10, were dramatic and full of intrigue. Now, the country is in economic and political crisis. Shahbaz Sharif’s new government has been in a state of decision paralysis and is struggling to find its footing, while the ousted prime minister is leading rallies across the country attacking the government’s legitimacy and calling for fresh elections. At the same time, Pakistan is also in the grip of an acute climate emergency. It’s not only political temperatures that are spiking: an Twitter MadihaAfzal The fall of Khan’s government Crucial to the current crisis is understanding how Khan’s government fell. While Khan was Pakistan’s first prime minister to be ousted via a no-confidence vote, he joined each of his predecessors as prime minister in not lasting five years — the length of parliament’s electoral term — in office. Pakistan’s major opposition parties had been clamoring for Khan’s exit since he came into office — Several factors were responsible for the fracture between Khan and the military, who previously had functioned on a much-touted “same page.” The biggest was an impasse over the transfer of the director general of the Inter Servic...

Islamabad: A member of the The minister who requested anonymity said Imran Khan used to "assail his rivals" over corruption and for criticising the military, among other things. Now, he said, Imran Khan is himself now facing criminal charges and is accused of inciting his party workers to attack civil and military installations on May 9, Express Tribune reported. "Things are coming full circle," the minister said, adding that the government meanwhile has adopted a "chill policy" and is only seeing how things, politically and legally, move ahead. To a question, he said Imran Khan would not be immediately allowed to go abroad as it is "time to face the music", Express Tribune reported. He alleged that Imran Khan used the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and other investigating agencies against his opponents, kept accusing them of committing corruption, and poisoned the political arena by labeling others as thieves, looters, and traitors. "Just see the irony. He (Imran) is facing the same criminal charges now (that he used to level against others). It is karma, I guess," the minister said, Express Tribune reported. A day after the coalition government presented its second federal budget, another member of the ruling alliance seconded the minister's statement and also agreed with Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah who recently said either Imran Khan or his political opponents would survive as things had reached to a point of no return. In March, Sanaullah had said that Imran...