In the past few years it has become a norm that a few hundred newborn babies and infants will inevitably die in Sindh’s beautiful Tharparkar desert every year. Conflicting figures are quoted in the ...

If misery had a face it would be the life of the people living in Tharparkar. There has been a drought-like situation in Tharparkar for several years, leading to the death of more than 3,000 children, ...

After Chitral, Sindh’s Tharparkar district has the highest prevalence of suicide in the country, going by just the reported cases. Seventy-year-old Sarang Meghwar sweats excessively in the stifling ...

THARPARKAR: The death toll of children in the region is incessantly on the rise with three more reported dead due to malnutrition. According to the Sindh health department, three infants succumbed to ...

Failure of a former Pakistan president and co-chairman of the ruling PPP party in Sindh province to address the deteriorating conditions in the poverty-stricken Tharparkar district shows how the poor ...

THARPARKAR: A large number of girls are forced to study in boys’ schools due to absence of girls' schools in rural areas of Tharparkar. As they progress to higher grades, many are eventually forced to ...

KARACHI: Tharparkar, located in the south of Sindh, is said to be a desert, but being a fertile desert, it is unlike the other known deserts of the world such as the Sahara Desert and the Gobi Desert.

Tharparkar is spread over 22,000 square kilometers with a population of about 1.6 million residing in 2,300 villages and urban settlements. Divided into six talukasMithi, Islamkot, Chachro, Dihlye, ...

Karachi:Around 162 children have died in Pakistans Tharparkar district in southern Sindh province in the last four months due to inadequate medical facilities, clean drinking water, malnutrition and ...