A.B. Arisar
UMERKOT, Sept 9: More than 200,000 rain victims who have taken shelter in government buildings and on sand dunes are...
Published 10 Sep, 2011 12:56am
UMERKOT, Aug 24: About 50 people were hospitalised late on Tuesday night after they fell unconscious after drinking...
Published 25 Aug, 2011 01:32am
UMERKOT, Aug 19: The mighty and powerful tribal heads and their relatives are above the law for they enjoy immunity...
Published 19 Aug, 2011 08:08pm
The prime minister and his team waved from a distance to people in the camp and the rain-affected people. He shook...
Published 15 Aug, 2011 09:15pm
UMERKOT, Aug 3: Erratic and belated rainfall in Thar desert is not helpful in growing crops and causes disappearance...
Published 04 Aug, 2011 12:44am
UMERKOT, July 27: No head of a government department — particularly deputy commissioner (former DCO) and...
Published 28 Jul, 2011 01:27am
UMERKOT, June 26: A 1,300 ampere transformer brought for the town`s old and rusting grid station about five months...
Published 27 Jun, 2011 01:29am
UMERKOT, June 25: Staff at post offices are making undue and illegal deductions from the Rs1,000 subsistence...
Published 25 Jun, 2011 11:05pm
Tharparkar district can no longer be considered a backward area as far as education is concerned. This was observed...
Published 21 May, 2011 09:00pm
UMERKOT, May 9: Residents of Sadhar village have threatened to block the Thar Express train track if the only water...
Published 09 May, 2011 07:51pm
UMERKOT, April 30: The hopes of residents of Thar are dashed as their dream of clean, filtered water at doorsteps is...
Published 01 May, 2011 01:31am
UMERKOT, April 24: Illegal hunting and inadequate resources available to the Wildlife Department are threatening the...
Published 25 Apr, 2011 12:42am
UMERKOT, April 14: Shabby roads, heaps of garbage strewn at every nook and corner and rundown water and sewerage...
Published 15 Apr, 2011 01:08am
UMERKOT, April 11: The curse of a cell phone friendship landed a married woman of Bahawalpur in a brothel of Umerkot...
Published 12 Apr, 2011 01:00am
UMERKOT, March 31: Mass migration of Tharis, particularly from sandy areas, will miss the census as they were moving...
Published 31 Mar, 2011 10:18pm
UMERKOT, March 28: A large number of fish were found dead in the Nara Canal and its tributaries near Farash ...
Published 28 Mar, 2011 09:07pm
UMERKOT, March 23: Speakers at seminars held to mark the World Water Day have highlighted the plight of ...
Published 23 Mar, 2011 10:10pm
Parents are apprehensive in sending their daughters to school where there is no boundary wall, electricity, water,...
Published 22 Mar, 2011 08:24pm
UMERKOT: Children with pale faces because of malnutrition and yellowing teeth caused by polluted water have to trek...
Published 15 Mar, 2011 09:10pm
According to a study of the Pakistan Council for Research on Water Resources (PCRWR), the entire Thar Desert ...
Updated 26 Feb, 2015 10:56am
