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Drought
victims not getting promised aid
The Dawn, By Our Correspondent
11/24/2002
GUJRAT, Nov 23: Residents of drought-hit localities in Gujrat,
Kharian and Serai Alamgir Tehsils say they are being denied the aid they have
been promised by the government because of district administrators' discriminatory
distribution of wheat.
UN
team assessing drought impact
The News, By GN Mughul
11/21/2002
HYDERABAD:- A joint team of experts
of three international organisations, namely the UNDP, FAO and WFP is currently
on a one month's mission of assessing impact of the four-year drought on crop
and food supply in Sindh and Balochistan, it is reliably learnt.
Five
Sindh districts badly affected by drought
The Dawn, 11/15/2002
KARACHI: A field drought assessment mission of the Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UNDP
called on Sindh Additional Chief Secretary (Development), Shahzado Shaikh, here
on Thursday and discussed matters pertaining to the assessment of the drought-hit
areas, the affected people of Thar and Arid Zone of the province, according
to a statement on Thursday.
IMF
concerned over little progress made for reducing poverty in Pakistan
Business
Recorder, Recorder Report 11/14/2002
ISLAMABAD: IMF is concerned that too little progress has been
made by Pakistan in recent years for reducing poverty, although quantitative
evidence is not available.
Govt
to develop new water reservoirs
The Nation, 8/11/2002
PESHAWAR (PPI) - Governor Lt Gen. (R) Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said, agriculture is the backbone of the economy of the province and keeping in view the indispensable role of water resources to boost agriculture sector.
Drought
and water management strategies
The Dawn, By Dr Sardar Riaz A. Khan, 4/11/2002
Pakistan is suffering from a severe drought for the last three years. A regional workshop on water management was held recently at Lahore which was organised by the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR), in collaboration with the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) and it was attended by experts from various countries. Five of the experts from Pakistan spoke on various aspects of water management.
Work
on dam plan opened
The Dawn, Bureau Report, 2/11/2002
PESHAWAR, Nov 1: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah on Friday inaugurated work on the construction of a small dam, about 6km from Latambar, on the Karak-Bannu Road in the Karak district. The project, which is designed to provide drinking water to the people of Karak, besides irrigating 3,300 acres, is estimated to cost Rs115 million. The project will be completed in six months.
Migration
from Thar reported
The News, By Muhammad Khalid, 29/10/2002
MIRPURKHAS: An NGO working in Thar in its recent report has said owing to a drought-like condition 21 per cent of households have migrated from Thar with entire families whereas 36 per cent of the breadwinners, especially males, have also left the arid zone in search of food.
Thar
natives forced out by drought
Daily Times, By Ahmed Raza, 28/10/2002
HYDERABAD: The famous Thar Desert in Sindh is experiencing a severe drought following a dry monsoon season. The desert's only private water reservoirs, deep wells that produce mostly acrid water, have become desolate.
World
Food Organization to provide food to the poor
The Dawn, By Our Correspondent, 20/10/2002
DADU, Oct 19: The World Food Organization will provide wheat, ghee and pluses to poor people of different areas in Sindh. This was said by the director, World Food Organisation, David Filcher, while speaking at a meeting of taluka Nazims, government officers and NGOs' delegations at the DCO office here on Saturday.
UN
sanctions $7m drought relief to Sindh and Balochistan
The Dawn, By Our Correspondent, 17/10/2002
MITHI, Oct 16: Taking cognizance of the fact that some parts of Sindh and Balochistan were in the grip of a severe drought, the United Nations has sanctioned a relief project of $7 million under the World Food Programme for 340,000 drought-affected people of these two provinces.
NGO
launches report on Tharparkar district
The Dawn, By Our Staff Reporter, 15/10/2002
KARACHI, Oct 14: The drought has gripped the Tharparkar district creating deficit of food and limiting opportunities of livelihood and there was urgent need to provide humanitarian assistance to the population, says a report.
MITHI:
Famine looms large in Tharparkar
The Dawn, By Our Correspondent, 4/10/2002
MITHI, Oct 3: The district of Tharparkar, except for few dehs, is facing famine-like situation as there has been no or insufficient rainfall this year. This has created acute shortage of water, food and fodder in four talukas of the district and compelled a large number of people to migrate to irrigated districts with their cattle heads.
HYDERABAD:
'Thar people exempted from paying revenue tax'
The Dawn, Bureau Report, 4/10/2002
HYDERABAD, Oct 3: The senior member, Board of Revenue, and relief commissioner, Sindh, Manzoor Hussain Bhutto, has said that the recovery of revenue tax in Tharparkar district had been stopped and the people had been exempted from the payment of land revenue.
Plan
for water through pipelines in Cholistan
The Nation, By Our Staff Reporter, 30/9/2002
LAHORE-The Punjab Government is making arrangements for the provision of water through pipelines in Cholistan at a cost Rs 324 million out of which the Federal Government has already released Rs 300 million.
Government
version on poverty report
The Dawn, 27/9/2002
ISLAMABAD, Sept 26: The news item carried in Dawn of Sept 25 with the headline "Poverty report suppressed for outcry fear", is misleading. At no point has the government attempted to prevent making the facts public as they emerge, says a government press release.
MITHI:
Thar to be declared calamity-hit area soon
The Dawn, By Our Correspondent, 26/9/2002
MITHI, Sept 25: Thar will soon be formally declared calamity-hit area, Sindh Governor Mohammedmian Soomro said on Wednesday. The Governor of Sindh was addressing at the inaugural ceremony of free distribution of 100kg wheat bags to the drought victim families here on Wednesday.
Securing
Thar from drought
The Dawn, By Aamir Kabir, 23/9/2002
The current monsoon season is fast approaching towards its end and Thar, with a population of little over a million, is facing drought-like situation yet again and its people are getting ready to move out of the area.
Call
for advanced water harvesting technologies
Daily Times, Staff Report, 19/9/2002
LAHORE: Chief executive's agriculture adviser Shafi Niaz has stressed the need to introduce advanced technologies for water harvesting, its conservation and management.
Plan
for effective utilisation of water resources prepared
The Nation, By Our Commerce Reporter, 17/9/2002
LAHORE-The government has prepared a strategy to effectively utilise water resources in order to overcome drought conditions.
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