HYDERABAD / LARKANA: Arrangements to save people’s life, property and livestock in the face of impending flood have almost been completed in upper, central and southern districts, including Hyderabad, Matiari, Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot districts while a strategy to relocate a large number of vulnerable
KARACHI: Heavy rains, described as “unprecedented” by the Met Office, paralysed life in Karachi on 19th August and submerged many areas mainly due to clogged drains that could not handle the rainwater flow. The rain also exposed the ill-maintained transmission and distribution system
SUKKUR: Slowly but surely there is a silent revolution underway in many cities of Sindh, and it is because of a movement started by the government-financed Sindh Rural Support Organisation (SRSO), which works towards women-focused community mobilisation and development. The SRSO basically
KARACHI: The Sindh government has dispatched a water filtration plant to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and 10 trucks loaded with ration bags and other essential food items for the flood-affected families, a statement said. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah also held a telephonic
HYDERABAD: The Sindh Human Rights Commission chairperson Iqbal Ahmed Detho has urged civil society to ensure provision of timely legal aid and essential needs such as appropriate clothing and safe living conditions to inmates at correctional centres. He said during a visit
KARACHI: Despite the Sindh government spending billions of rupees on social protection programs, poverty remains deeply entrenched in the province’s rural areas. According to official statistics obtained by The Express Tribune, the Sindh government has spent nearly Rs20 billion in five
Excessive underground water extraction has led to land subsidence, amplifying the risk of destructive earthquakes KARACHI: Amidst the city’s never ending water crisis, underground water boring has emerged as a crucial mode of supplying the survival necessity. However, the popular practice has
Amidst the city’s endless water crisis, speeding heavy vehicles continue to claim lives KARACHI: Karachi’s artificial water crisis has been the talk of the town since years. With an expanding urban population and a limited availability of water, more and more citizens
Each year, Pakistan loses over $2 billion to climate-induced disasters. The figure represents far more than just economic damage. It is the cost of political inaction and poor planning. Pakistan ranks among the most climate-vulnerable nations in the world. Floods, droughts and
In the absence of adequate water treatment, water-borne diseases are spreading in the city KARACHI: Where the supply of water remains an incessant woe, plaguing the peace of locals in Karachi, it appears that even the measly quantity of water supplied to