At the point when hardships speak volume about the hard-hit area in Pakistan, it isn’t difficult to comprehend the reasons for the top trend of self-executing there. The task of taking one’s life is considered to be the most difficult job but the repeated incidents in the Tharparkar area are the other way around. The residents of the area lacking, in a way, means of livelihood, medicine, money and above all, water, only count death toll of their beloved ones, bury them and mourn. No dictatorship, democracy or NGOs could claim to change their centuries-old fate. There is, maybe, a minimal link between a place producing gold and booming of its kin as is in the African expanse, an aids-hit and poverty shaken locale. The same is true for the touristic gold-spot in Pakistan, Tharparkar-an unfathomably ignored area by the PPP-led government, where deaths are dancing as individuals drain themselves despondently. Reportedly, roughly 1300 individuals ended up their lives within an age bracket of 21-40 in Tharparkar during the last five years. Different milieus of the region including Umar Kot and Mirpur Khas followed suit. A significant reason for suicides is, as a research report finishes up, the absence of good governance, other than social disparity, and foul play in the rustic Sindh. Around 800,000 individuals end their lives or endeavour suicide in this world consistently. This pattern point out extreme financial, social and political stresses The 2014 study found that there is a solid connection between the appalling administration and the worst living conditions. The research authored by a senior civil servant Ahmad Khawar Shahzad gives an overview of the crises of governance in Tharparkar and suggests that corruption and lack of health facilities, bureaucratic inefficiency and anarchy played a preponderant role in aggravating mortality rate. This, besides self-execution, provoked the killing of neo-natal, lactating ladies, animals, and birds including dancing peacocks in Tharparkar. According to the report, Tharparkar has 2357 villages; a small part is situated in the commanded region of the irrigation system. For the most part, individuals are reliant on downpour for nourishment as water-table is deep and groundwater is brackish. As indicated by the report, Tharparkar is the most backward area in Pakistan with a poverty position of 32; wherein, 23% of individuals live beneath the poverty line. The misery that prompts vulnerability is endemic in the poorly populated place with an intense lack of healthy sustenance rate in kids as high as 20%. This is well over the emergency limit of 15%. Because of never-ending hunger and absence of good governance, individuals who kicked the bucket in Mithi hospital in Tharparkar rose to 439 in 2011, 588 in 2013 and 234 by April 2014, the report mentions. Some observe that Tharparkar encounters a serious dry spell after every few years and one starvation every decade consistently. It is also argued that until March 2014, famine-affected as much as 175,000 families and caused deaths of about100 people. Malnutrition is the major cause of this sad story. Even though the Sindh government claimed to dole out subsidized wheat to the inhabitants during the current decade, the ground circumstances uncover an altogether different narrative. As indicated by WHO’s Worldwide Measles and Rubella Vital Arrangement 2012-2020, the episode of measles pestilence began in Sindh in December 2012 which killed 321 out of 2013. The Thar administration formally declared that 319 deaths had happened from January 2014 to October 2014, including 188 infants under five years of age. The damage locusts caused, during recent months there, would add further fuel to fire. The anti-corruption department received complaints of embezzlement in medicines’ purchase. Expired medicines were also found in hospitals. Fully equipped mobile medical dispensaries were misused by government functionaries; one was used by DC Tharparkar as an air-conditioned car. Report of the observing judge, on the bearing of the apex court, also featured that AC Diplo Khurshid Alam received numerous complaints about misappropriation. At the point when fake accounts worth Rs100 billion telling tale of the trail to the ruling elite are uncovered by the state machinery, a single officer gathered billions in his house, said a local resident namely Sadiq, the fate of the poor would essentially be suicides. The Sindh government has not made any managerial move against the corrupt lot because political postings remained in vogue during the past decade. Those who minted money out of this ordeal, and failed to deliver to the desolate, have developed a behaviour of an impassive intruder of the desert. Khawar’s report centres on current conditions other than mapping out the future ramifications. Under the looming shadow of global warming, a little rise in temperature may exacerbate drought in the area. If left unaddressed, this situation may make a serious shortage of food and fodder, hereafter. In like manner, another research indicated that in 1995/96, 47.5 percent of inhabitants in Bangladesh were living below the poverty line. Poverty, as the paper argues, in Bangladesh, originates less in the lack of resources, than in the failures of governance. Around 800,000 individuals end their lives or endeavour suicide in this world consistently. This pattern point out extreme financial, social and political stresses. It has become the main source of death among 15-29-year-old adolescents. As indicated by a 2016 overview, the suicides don’t simply happen in high-income nations, 79 percent of worldwide suicides happened in low-and-middle-income countries. The pace of crime in Punjab and different parts of the country, including Sindh, is low when contrasted with Tharparkar. The need is to examine this phenomenon, its causes, and set up a far-reaching suicide avoidance scheme to tackle this leading cause of death. Moreover, there is a need to introduce sprinkle-irrigation system to promote agriculture. Similarly, the federal government may patronise this region as an international zoo-safari for breeding animals. The Sindh government should encourage dairy farming and horticulture to help the locals to wriggle out of quagmire of poverty and ignorance. If done so, the desert of deaths could become global tourists’ hub one day. The writer is a Lahore based public policy analyst