Deaths During The Month Of Ramadan

Last summer, temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius led to more than a thousand heat-related deaths in Karachi. This year, as it prepares for the peak of summer heat, the city has opened 179 heatstroke centres to try to hold down the number of deaths.

Sea breezes brought cooler temperatures today to ease a heat wave that killed more than 1,150 people over a week around Pakistan's teeming port city of Karachi during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Pakistan has imposed a one month moratorium on executions during Ramadan, officials said today, providing temporary reprieve for a death row prisoner whose lawyers claim he was a juvenile at the time of the crime.

Last summer, temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius led to more than a thousand heat-related deaths in Karachi. This year, as it prepares for the peak of summer heat, the city has opened 179 heatstroke centres to try to hold down the number of deaths.

Sea breezes brought cooler temperatures today to ease a heat wave that killed more than 1,150 people over a week around Pakistan's teeming port city of Karachi during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Pakistan has imposed a one month moratorium on executions during Ramadan, officials said today, providing temporary reprieve for a death row prisoner whose lawyers claim he was a juvenile at the time of the crime.