GILGIT: Pakistan has announced a five-year ban on the construction of new hotels around northern lakes popular with tourists, ...

Pakistan will ban for five years the construction of new hotels around picturesque lakes in the north that attract tens of thousands of tourists each year, a government agency said.

Pakistan is experiencing its hottest and most extreme summer of the decade. This crisis is not a natural occurrence, but the result of years of unchecked environmental degradation that have pushed the ...

Breaching of Lake Manchar, Pakistan's biggest lake, has affected around 135,000 people as officials desperately tackle catastrophic flooding.

Pakistan authorities intentionally breached the country’s largest freshwater lake on Sunday, displacing 100,000 people from their homes but preventing more densely populated areas further afield ...

Pakistan breaches lake to help save city from flooding as death toll climbs to 1,300. Pakistani engineers cut into embankment for one of country’s largest lakes. Lucy Skoulding.

Lake Manchar widens in July as monsoon rains battered Pakistan. In Bachal Chana, another nearby village, resident Yar Mohammad said people had been caught completely off guard when overflowing ...

SEHVAN, Pakistan — The retaining wall of Pakistan’s largest lake burst on Tuesday after months of heavy rains, inundating hundreds more villages downstream and threatening to force thousands ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani engineers cut into an embankment for one of the country’s largest lakes Sunday to release rising waters in the hopes of saving a nearby city and town from ...