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Supervisor of Tharparkar Relief Works Taj Haider has said that besides being affected by drought and deaths of children and livestock, the people of Tharparkar are facing the bad time courageously. He was addressing a program on “Thar’s drought situation and its solutions”, said a statement issued on Wednesday. He said that the government of Sindh had given him the responsibility of relief work in Tharparkar and Pakistan People’s Party was trying to solve the issues of Thar on priority. He...

PDMA issues emergency warnings for drought to provincial departments, including agriculture, irrigation and food At least two more children died on Sunday due to food shortages in Thar mounting the death toll to 247 in a time span of 88 days. A seven-day old Ali Muhammad died at Civil Hospital Mithi where he was under treatment, and another one-month old baby girl lost her life at Chachru Hospital. Despite the government’s tall claims, no facilities have been provided to those affected by the...

One more infant has died in Tharparkar, taking the death toll in the drought-stricken district to 46 in the last 40 days. The child died of malnutrition in the Civil Hospital of Mithi. The ongoing drought has claimed up to 470 lives in three years. In the drought-hit region that is spread over 22,000 kilometres, Civil hospital is often too far for residents to visit. Abject poverty and lack of transportation facilities make a visit to the hospital all the more daunting. Moreover,...

Three more children died due to malnutrition in drought-hit Thar on Monday taking the death toll to 115 in 54 days. According to reports, 15 days old Mushtaq Ibrahim breathed his last at Civil Hospital Mithi and 18 months old Rasheed Samijo and an infant died in Chachro whereas an expecting mother also died in the hospital due to malnourishment. Scarcity of water and food, inaccessibility to relief goods and the Sindh government’s indifference to the plight of the people of...