Robbers kill two girls in Kashmore
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At least two girls were killed and another injured by robbers here in Kashmore on Saturday.
According to police sources, a group of robbers broke into the house of Rafiq Ahmad in Ghot Aali Jakhrani area and made hostage the family at gun point for looting the valuables from the…
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Sindh shut to protest LG system
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KARACHI/JACOBABAD – A complete strike was observed across the province including provincial capital on Saturday in response to a call given by the nationalist parties of Sindh against abolishing commissionerate system and revival of nazims-led local government system.
All the cities and towns from Karachi to Kashmore, remained shut and…
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Blast halts gas supply to Punjab
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KASHMORE (INP) – Miscreants blew up a 16-inch diameter gas pipeline late Thursday, suspending gas supply to various areas of Punjab. According to police, militant planted explosive with the gas pipeline, which went off, destroying a portion of the gas pipeline as it caught fire after the blast.
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Gas pipeline blown up in Kashmore
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Unknown miscreants blew up a 16-inch diameter gas pipeline with explosives here in Kashmore late Thursday night, suspending gas supply to various areas of Punjab.
According to police, unknown miscreants planted explosive device with 16-inch gas pipeline, which went off with big bang on late Thursday night destroying a portion…
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Malaria cases on sharp rise in Sindh after floods
A girl suffering from fever in flood-hit area in Pakistan. – AFP Photo
KARACHI: After recent floods the number of malaria cases rose sharply in Sindh, as accumulated flood water provided suitable environment to mosquitoes for breeding.
Despite many efforts of the government malaria is yet to be eliminated from the country and each year it claims hundreds of lives, say experts. Director Malaria Control Program Sindh, Dr. Naheed Jamali said that earler this cases of malaria had been on decline but the heavy floods of last year sent the number of malaria cases in Sindh soaring. — PPI
She said during the year 2009 more than 25,000 malaria cases had been reported in Sindh whereas in the year 2010 due to flood more than 57,000 cases of malaria were reported in Sindh province.
She said that there are more than 400 types of mosquitoes and it needs hectic efforts to eliminate them. She said under the malaria control program in Sindh including Karachi, 48 centers were working including the centers in teaching hospitals and health centers, where malaria patients are treated free of cost.
She pointed out that four districts of Sindh -Thatta, Khairpur, Dadu and Tharparker lead in malaria cases, while the number of reported cases is also on rise in districts of Kashmore, Ghotki and Larkana due to standing floodwater.
Dr Jamali said that last year 0.2mn mosquito nets were distributed that would remain in working condition for at least five years. To a question, she said that there was no shortage of funds, as due to the efforts of provincial health minister and secretary the program had been running successfully. She, however, admitted that sometimes disbursement of salary get delayed, consequently employees have to face trouble.
Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) Dr. Farhan Essa said that World Malaria Day is being celebrated all over the world including Pakistan on April 25 with the purpose to create awareness about this disease among the masses.
“The outbreak of malaria takes place every year after rainfall due to which thousands of people get affected while many people also die of this disease,” he added.
The symptoms of typhoid, malaria and dengue fever resemble one another, which is why complications take place during treatment if the disease not properly diagnosed. He said to avoid these complications the treatment must be given after a proper diagnosis. He said that there are four kinds of malaria which takes place when a female mosquito bites before laying eggs.
Dr. Farhan Essa asserted that people should ensure before transfusing the blood that is it clean form malaria; otherwise, the recipient patient can develop malaria.
Dr Shaista at National Institute of Child Health (NICH) said that every year thousands of children get affected by malaria whereas hundreds of children die of malaria. She said the death cases are not often reported in media. She said that daily dozens of children suffering from malaria are brought to National Institute of Child Health in OPD as well as emergency department, who after diagnosis are treated free of cost.
Malaria is a blood infectious diseases in which patients suffer from fever, anemia and possibly jaundice, added she.
Dr Shaista said that there is certain a kind of malaria, cerebral malaria, that affects children’s brain in which after fits child may go unconscious. Parents should immunize their children against diseases like polio, black cough, measles, hepatitis B, chicken pox, flu, meningitis, tuberculosis and other diseases so that they could be protected, she urged.
Pakistan Medical Association office-bearer and senior doctor Qaisar Sajjad said that malaria is a dangerous disease .People die of malaria, but still the government is not taking steps for complete eradication of mosquitoes.
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Categories: The News Tags: Dadu, Flood, Ghotki, Karachi, Kashmor, Khairpur, Larkana, Rain, sindh, Sui, Thatta
Harvested wheat under serious threat
I WAS aghast to read the report (April 15) that more than three million maunds of harvested wheat crop is lying in the open in Kashmore, Jacobabad, Ghotki, Sukkur and adjoining areas because of
non-availability of gunny bags.
According to the policy, wheat is procured by the provincial government through the Food Department. Hence it is the responsibility of the Food Department to provide gunny bags to growers immediately after harvest.
Now, on the one hand, restrictions have been imposed on the inter-district movement of wheat and, on the other hand, the Food Department’s minions have stopped supplying gunny bags, obviously to coerce the farming community to grease their palms.
There is no realisation in the quarters concerned that this would lead to non-procurement and, as a consequence, destruction of the crop as the Meteorological Department has forecast rainfall before its time.
Although the government is drumbeating about achieving a bumper crop, those who have made this possible are being exploited by a section of provincial food ministry officials.
The farmers in Sindh who suffered in the wake of floods last year have pinned all hopes on the current wheat crop but now feel threatened because of non-procurement of their crop by the government on time.
I request the chief minister to rescue the famers’ community or else they would suffer irreparably; this time for their uphill struggle in achieving a bumper crop of wheat.
HAJI GHULAM HUSSAIN
Khairpurm Mirs
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Gas pipeline blown up at Kashmore: supply suspended in Punjab
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Gas pipeline routing from Sui to Punjab has been blown up by unidentified individuals suspending gas supply to several areas of Punjab.
As per Police Sources unidentified men have blown up a gas pipeline of 18 inches diameter with explosive material near Goth Hajani, Tungoi of district Kashmore, routing towards…
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Religious parties on strike against blasphemy law amends
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A countrywide strike was being held on Friday on the call of religious parties against any proposed amendments in the blasphemy law. In Karachi, no public transport was available and commuters were facing difficulties. The strike was also being observed in Lahore, Gujranwala, Peshawar, Quetta, Kashmore, Hazara division and Kandhkot.…
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5 including 3 children died of Gastro in Kashmor
Five more people including three minor children died of gastro disease as gastro broken out in Kashmor after flood. As per details, at least one person and three children died in Kashmor, district of Sindh while a minor child (2) died in Goth Yarodahry raising the death toll of gastro…
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5 including 3 children died of Gastro in Kashmor
Five more people including three minor children died of gastro disease as gastro broken out in Kashmor after flood. As per details, at least one person and three children died in Kashmor, district of Sindh while a minor child (2) died in Goth Yarodahry raising the death toll of gastro…
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5 including 3 children died of Gastro in Kashmor
Five more people including three minor children died of gastro disease as gastro broken out in Kashmor after flood. As per details, at least one person and three children died in Kashmor, district of Sindh while a minor child (2) died in Goth Yarodahry raising the death toll of gastro…
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Eight women electrocuted to death in Kashmore
Eight women were electrocuted to death and 13 other injured when an 11000-voltage high-tension electricity wire fell over a tractor trolley in Goth Faiz Mohammad area of Kashmore, report said. The dead and injured have been shifted to the Civil Hospital Kashmore. Electricity supply is suspended to Goth Faiz Mohammad.
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5 persons electrocuted, 25 injured due to falling electricity lines in Kashmor
At least five persons including three women, one man and a child was electrocuted and 25 others injured due to falling of a high tension electricity line of 11,000 voltage at a tractor trolley in Goth Faiz Muhammad near Kashmor here on Saturday. According to details, a family was moving…
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16 Sindh districts calamity-hit
KARACHI – Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Tuesday declared 16 districts of the province as the calamity-hit areas.
These districts are: Sukkur, Ghotki, Dadu, Shaheed Benazirabad, Larkana, Jacobabad, Naushehro Feroz, Tando Muhammad Khan, Kashmore, Hyderabad, Kamber-Shahdadkot, Khairpur, Thatta, Matiari, Shikarpur and Jamshoro.
The move came as the…
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Categories: The News Tags: Dadu, Ghotki, Hyderabad, Jacobabad, Jamshoro, Karachi, Kashmor, Khairpur, Larkana, Matiari, Shikarpur, sindh, Sukkur, Thatta
PN helicopters drop 2,500kg relief goods
KARACHI – In continuation of PN flood relief efforts in Sindh, Pakistan Navy helicopters have dropped 2,500 kilogrammes of relief goods and ration in Kashmore and Ghotki areas.
Two PN trucks have also been dispatched to Sukkur which carried additional equipment including 6 Zulu boats, 200 tents, 10 boat…
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PN helicopters drop 2,500kg relief goods
KARACHI – In continuation of PN flood relief efforts in Sindh, Pakistan Navy helicopters have dropped 2,500 kilogrammes of relief goods and ration in Kashmore and Ghotki areas.
Two PN trucks have also been dispatched to Sukkur which carried additional equipment including 6 Zulu boats, 200 tents, 10 boat…
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Sukkur Barrage witnessing highest flood tide
The high flood at the Guddu Barrage inundated dozens of villages in Ghotki, Shikarpur and Kashmore districts on Sunday and the floodwater has hit here to sustain pressure at Qadirpur Lope in Ghotki, Sarhad and Obauro areas of Sukkur division. The Sukkur Barrage is witnessing a highest flood tide with…
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