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The Pakistani Health Department reports that at least 1.8 million people in Punjab, Pakistan have become sick with respiratory and eye irritation ailments caused by chronic, record-breaking air pollution.
2024-11-12

Seven people are killed and twelve others are injured when a gas cylinder explosion causes a three-story building to collapse in Jhelum, Punjab, Pakistan.
2023-07-9

Four Muslim men are charged with blasphemy, after arguing with an Imam who refused to make a funeral announcement for a Christian man in the village of Khodi Khushal Singh, Punjab, Pakistan.
2021-11-25

Three people are killed and 50 more wounded during a grenade attack at a Shiite religious procession in Bahawalnagar, Punjab, Pakistan.
2021-08-19

Thousands of protestors rally in front of the Parliament of Pakistan in Islamabad in support of Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of reformist Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer in 2011 who was subsequently executed last February. The Pakistan Army was called in to control the situation.
2016-03-28

The devastating floods continue as a concern of the United Nations, with officials citing a lack of aid funding for six million people in urgent need of clean water.
2010-08-16

The Prime Minister of Pakistan Yusuf Raza Gilani estimates that 20 million people have been affected by the floods.
2010-08-14

Food prices quadruple in Pakistan as conditions worsen and at least 1.4 million acres of crops are wiped out in Punjab by Pakistan's worst floods.
2010-08-11

Gordon Brown requests that the British public supply more money to be used to help those affected by the floods.
2010-08-11

The Disasters Emergency Committee launches its appeal for donations.
2010-08-4