Tropical storm 03B
ASIA: IRIN-ASIA Weekly round-up 130 for 25 June – 1 July 2007
CONTENTS: AFGHANISTAN: Demand for narcotics outstrips available treatment for drug addicts AFGHANISTAN: Floods kill 17 across seven AFGHANISTAN: Taliban impose rule, hefty taxes in Musa Qala District
Tropical storm 03B
Tropical storm 03B struck Iran at about 12:00 GMT on 26 June.
PAKISTAN: More effective disaster preparedness urged as storm kills 200
Three days after the rainstorm that lashed Paksitan's main port city of Karachi on 23 June, Khursheed Jamshed, 50, is unsure if her 20-year-old son, Pervaiz, has survived. As if the chaos unleashed by the storm was not enough, people in Karachi were bracing for Cyclone Yemyin 03b, which has formed in the Arabian Sea 150km south of Karachi.
Rain batters Pakistani coast as cyclone looms
Source: Reuters
By Faisal Aziz KARACHI, June 26 (Reuters) - Heavy rain fell over the Pakistani city of Karachi on Tuesday as a cyclone loomed off the coast, threatening more devastation days after about 230 people ... Full article
Source: Reuters
By Faisal Aziz KARACHI, June 26 (Reuters) - Heavy rain fell over the Pakistani city of Karachi on Tuesday as a cyclone loomed off the coast, threatening more devastation days after about 230 people ... Full article
