Situation Report

on Tharparkar
Drought

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Tharparkar desert in Sindh is the largest desert of Pakistan and the 18 largest in
the world with an area of 22000 square Kilometers. The population of Tharparkar is
1.5 million. This is only district in Pakistan where more than 50% of population is
Hindus. The government has no conducted a proper census after 1998 although
analyst say that the population of Hindus in this district is near 0.8 million.
Tharparkar district is divided into five tehsils, nangararkal, Chachro, diplo and
Mitthi, Islamkot with it headquarter in Mitthi city. There are about 2400 villages in
district Tharparkar, which are populated with Dalit communities. The land in
Tharparkar is highly fertile but unfortunately most of it is desert, so that production
of crops depends on rains during summer rain fall from mid-June to mid-august each
year.

During drought like situation in Tharparkar the majority of people in agriculture

workforce eat meals of the red pepper or onion and sometimes rabri. Their life is
very simple during election they do not know how to vote and usually casted their
vote on the direction of their mukhya (village chief). The literacy rate is low.
Education of the children is neglected and because lack of finance most children

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pulled out of school after a few year anyway.

Pakistan is 3rd largest milk producing country in the world, 4 th largest producing
country in world cotton production, 5th largest sugarcane producing country in the
world. It is largest country in the world coal reserve. We only produce 0.2% of the
electricity from it.
A single that coal reserve of Sindh is about 850 Trillion cubic feet. Pakistan is one of
the world largest producers & suppliers of the following according to the different
sources: for example food & agriculture, organization of the united nation and
FAOSTAT given here with ranking
Chickpea (3rd)

Kinnow (6th)

Apricot (6th)

Mango (4th)

Cotton (4th)

wheat (7th)

Milk (5th)

Rice (4th)

Date palm (5th)

Sugarcane (5th)

Onion (7th)
Pakistan ranks eight worldwide in form output, according to GDP sector composition
list of countries. Pakistan government 5th largest copper reserves and also large coal
reserve. Where all the finance goes either government personal account, it will
effect to decrease the unemployment in Pakistan and it will help to decrease the
poverty in Pakistan. Pakistan government is playing with feeling of nation.

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Even though the drought in Thar has been ongoing for ten year, the government
has not considered this serious issue and problem has been growing each year.
Peoples of Tharparkar support PPP because they remember the sacrifice of the
Bhutto family.
Governments may rationally fail to act against famines when the political costs of
action are higher than the political costs of inaction. A famous observation goes:
Starvation is a characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is
not a characteristic of there being not enough food to eat. It follows that food
shortages are not a necessary condition for the outbreak of famines. What really
matters are entitlements and control over food and non-food commodities, not food
availability as such. Famines occur when groups of individuals experience
entitlement collapse and are no longer able to buy sufficient amounts of food.

Sindh minister of information, archives and local Government Sharjeel Memon said
that Pakistan people party parliamentarian and Sindh CM Syed Qaim Ali shah were
personally monitoring the situation of Tharparkar and PPP and its provisional
Government would not leave the famine affected people of Tharparkar alone in this
tragic condition. The Minister also claimed that only 69 children died in Tharparkar
during past 4 months but cause of their deaths was not famine but pneumonia. A
team of doctors and paramedics had already started catering to the people of
Tharparkar for their needs of medical care and a shipment of medicines of urgent
needs had also been supplied to the healthcare facilities in the areas. He said that
there were 25 children under medical care and they were all out of danger and
the stock of required medicines was also available in those hospitals. He claimed
that number of deaths of children as reported was not true but the actual number of
deaths was 26 in December 2013, 18 in January, 23 in February and 3 in March
2014. Majority of children had died of pneumonia and other infections and again
majority of infants were fateful to the pneumonia and infection

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Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah here on Monday denied governments
negligence as well as reports that a large number of children died due to
malnutrition in drought-hit Tharparkar district. In his address in Sindh assembly, CM
Sindh said that not even a single child or a person died of hunger in Thar adding
that they died because of poverty. "Can anybody name even a single person?
Provide me details if there are any, asserted the CM. Shah claimed that the PPP-led
Sindh government had taken all-out measures for famine-hit Thar. We did whatever
we could We appointed male and female doctors in government hospitals in farflung areas of Tharparkar, Shah said. Tharparkar Mitthi town, he said, could be
compared to any developed city of Sindh. We have announced an aid package for
Thar, constructed roads and infrastructures there and a scheme of PRs 2 billion will
be completed this year, Shah said. More than 80 reverse osmosis plants are
functional in Thar. Its not an easy task to make food arrangements for 1.6 million
people The lawmakers must go there and witness the situation themselves before
criticizing the government he said. The Chief Minister said a committee of
lawmakers could be formed to investigate reports of governments negligence in
taking measures with respect to the situation in Tharparkar. We will tender apology
if our laxity is proved, he promised
Famine is ostensibly preventable through government action and yet some famines
still kill. Minister of State for Health Saira Afzal Tarar has said that the federal
government is looking to devise a five to ten-year plan to deal with the famine in
the Thar region of Sindh.
If certain politicians were solely to blame for the calamity it could very easily be
argued that this is a group of politicians that we neglect at our peril. This would be a
mistake because in a sense the PPPs approach perfectly mirrors the way in which it
is governing the province. Whilst people were dying in remote parts of Tharparkar or
on the streets and in crowded hospitals in Mitthi, most of the important discussions
on the issue took place in London

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The drought is not only the reason for the recent death observers say that they had
come about as a result of endemic poverty exacerbated.
Authorities have been busy dispensing food aid and sending medics to attend to the
sick following visits by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, who
leads the Pakistan People's Party which rules the province. But observers say the
relief work fails to address the root causes of such disasters and warn they are likely
to be repeated. A drought in the desert in 2000 killed 90 per cent of the livestock.

Sindh Government is finalizing the water issue in Tharparkar as it has completed

installation of 150 reverse osmosis water filter plants in Tharparkar, Pakistan
Tribe reported.
Water issues and dying people due to thirst in Tharparkar has become the
headline for the last couple of months as every passing day infants are dying due to
less food, medicine clean water.
Discussing the issue and presiding the meeting in CM house Sindh Syed Qaim Ali
Shah Chief Minister of Sindh said that The largest reverse osmosis (RO) plant of
Asia having capacity to filter two million gallons per day will be inaugurated by
former president Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday.
Every day we see in different newspapers reports regarding the present situation in
Thar. Even the chairperson of ruling party in the province has taken notice of the
situation. In such circumstances rather than clearing and politicizing the issue, the
government should formed a committee including MPA from all political parties to
probe the issue so that such incidents are not repeated in future
Situation report Tharparkar Drought
Population affected
Area affected
No. Of people migrate

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1100,000 (souls)(projected)
19638 sq.km 7582 sq. Mile
150000 (mostly koli & bheel community migrate every year

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during wheat
Harvest season along with large cattle heads)
Relife provides Safar

60000 wheat bags (100kg)

No. Of deaths
Causes of death

birth Asphyxia, NNS, FTT, VSD, casping

No. Of cattle heads

2011 animals

As per report more than 257 children have die due to malnutrition and disease in
Tharparkar district soon after it was reported in the media NGO and government
officials reached there to prevent further losses. Each year hundreds of social
development is initiated in Tharparkar with the donations from international
development group but no program is properly implemented and become to prey to
corruption.
So that issue of unemployment is lack of education and the health continue to grow.

Tharparkar is considered the most backward area of Pakistan so that the fund from
international donors is in million dollars. The government issued budgets of
development, but it almost all goes in account of corrupt leaders and not reached to
affected people
Making smaller dams to stop water wastage during rain can also stop the need
of migration and prevent drought the Tharparkar. The government and organization
must create the economic resources for the people of the area to find the proper
employment and create the economic possibilities for them to assist a formal and
permanent life in Tharparkar so they can educate their children. They can make
Thar--parkar peacefully, heavenly place, it has need to become potential

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