Tag: Tharparkar

Five dead in Tharparkar as drought continues

Five children died on Wednesday due to malnutrition in drought-hit Tharparkar. The annual death toll in the region has crossed 500. With the increasing number of...

Drought feeding on young lives: Five infants lost in Tharparkar

THARPARKAR- Five more young lives were lost on Thursday in the drought-hit Tharparkar, taking the death toll due to malnutrition to 94 in the month...

18 health units in Umerkot are non-functional, SHC told

Umerkot district and sessions judge has reported to the Sindh High Court (SHC) that Sindh government has not undertaken efforts for filling the vacant...

3 children, pregnant woman die in Thar

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,...

Two more infants die of famine in Thar, death toll rises...

Two more infants died due to malnutrition on Saturday escalating the death toll to 107 in the famine and drought-hit Thar region. Per details, the...

Death toll rises to 112 in Tharparkar

One more infant died of malnutrition in drought-hit Tharparkar district on Friday, bringing the death toll to 112 in 52 days. Officials said that around...

Tharparkar: Eight new infant deaths falsify DHO’s claim

THARPARKAR-  Eight more infants lost their lives due to malnutrition in drought-hit Tharparkar district on Tuesday, private media reported. Falsifying the claims of district health officer...

Eleven more die in Tharparkar, 81 dead in 48 days

Eleven children succumbed to the adverse conditions in Tharparkar on Monday, taking the death toll to 81 in just 48 days. Per details, ten children...

How’s it going in Tharparkar?

SHC seeks report from DSJs of Tharparkar, Umerkot on effectiveness of relief activities The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday directed the district and sessions...

MQM decries CM Sindh over mismanagement in Thar

KARACHI- Coordination Committee of Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) addressed a press conference on Thursday, and  accused Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah of bad governance and...

Tharparkar drought claims life of one more infant

The ongoing drought has claimed up to 470 lives in three years

Four children breath their last in Thar

*Bilawal withdraws show-cause notices issued to PPP’s Wassan, Shah for publicising report which held PPP govt repsponsible for adverse situation in Thar The death toll...

Troops move towards Thar for relief work: ISPR

ISLAMABAD Pakistan Army on Tuesday moved troops to famine-hit Tharparkhar district of Sindh, Asim Bajwa; Director General of Inter- Services Public Relations (ISPR) tweeted. He said...

CM Sindh says no child died of hunger in Thar

KARACHI- Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Monday denied allegations of  government’s negligence over Tharparkar district's drought spell while quashing reports that more...

18 children die in Tharparkar in last 20 days

One more child died at Mithi Hospital on Friday raising the death toll in famine-hit District Tharparkar to 18 in the last 20 days....

Tharparkar famine continues as two more children fall prey to malnutrition,...

MITHI- At least two children died of malnutrition n Tharparkar while 20 others were under treatment, a private news channel reported. The residents of Thar continue...

Tharparkar famine claims three more children

THARPARKAR INP   Diseases caused due to malnutrition continued to claim more lives in as three children including two minors and a five-year-old girl died in Tharparkar...