The toll of extreme flooding on Pakistan’s food security is becoming apparent: large swathes of farmland under water, crops and food stocks washed away, homes and livelihoods wiped out.

The incident is just one example of how the impact of the country’s burgeoning food shortage and a looming economic crisis are already being felt by Pakistan’s poorest. As the country still ...

Over the past month, about two dozen people have died in the country while waiting for the food donations. In Karachi, Pakistan’s financial center, 13 women and children died in March when ...

“Ramadan is for fasting, praying, and celebrating, but in Pakistan, inflation has been forcing people to queue and die in stampedes to receive free food,” said Muhammad Aziz, a textile ...