A Rs1.28 billion project has been proposed to strengthen livestock, horticulture and sustainable ecosystem management in the Thar desert region through research, technology transfer and community capacity building. The project is titled Thar Community Actions for the Management of Sustainable Ecosystem, Livestock, Land and Livelihood (THAR CAMELL), according to official documents available with Wealth Pakistan. […]
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Thar Samaji Tehreek stages a rally to protest against the brutalities of the coal mining companies
On the call of newly formed Thar Samaji Tehreek, residents of several villages of Islamkot taluka took out a rally from Siraj Petrol Pump to Islamkot Press Club on Monday to protest against the atrocities of the officials of the coal mining firms. The participants of the rally staged the demonstration outside the press club […]
Haleem Adil Sheikh angry at deaths of infants in Tharparkar
MITHI: Haleem Adil Sheikh, the Opposition Leader in Sindh Assembly and the central vice president of PTI, has expressed his great resentment and anger over the unabated deaths of the infants in the desert district of Tharparkar and the merry-making activities by the doctors and the lawmakers of the district. Mr. Sheikh, in a statement […]
Social impact of coal mining in Thar
Major development projects always have an environmental impact. This is equally true of construction of large dams, roads, railways and industrial zones. Projects that offer more benefits and less adverse impact environmentally, economically and socially are considered good. Given the shortage of oil and gas and the lack of consensus on the construction of big […]
Initiating mining activities at Thar Block II
Daily times development analysis Thar coalfield, located in Sindh Pakistan, is bounded in the North, East and South by India, in the West by flood plains of the Indus River. Town of Islamkot, a population center, is 44 km to the West of the mining project site in Thar coalfield.The Thar coalfield was discovered in […]
Bilawal introduces Thar coal control venture
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday introduced Pakistan’s first real coal-based power venture situated in Sindh’s Tharparkar District. “Today, the PPP has shown its faith in conveying for the majority. This venture and its prosperity is an achievement for all of Pakistan. The PPP and Sindh government has set a case […]
Thar coal plant starts generating electricity
A lignite coal power plant in Thar of Engro Powergen Thar Limited (EPTL) started pumping 330 MW of electricity. It is generated by domestic coal. Sources from the company stated that the first of two 330MW units of the 660MW project in Thar Block 2 was tested and boosted on Monday. The CEO of EPTL, […]
Over 13,000 students participated in first ever Laar Science Festival
HYDERABAD: The two-day first ever Laar Science Festival organized by Thar Education Alliance concluded. More than 13,000 students from over 50 regional schools and colleges participated in the two-day festival at Thatta’s Sports Complex. During the two the festival Minister of Education Syed Sardar Ali Shah and Information and Technology Minister Nawab Taimur Talpur applauded […]
UN Women Executive Director urges people to raise voice against child marriages
HYDERABAD: Making one of Pakistan’s most impoverished districts the first stop of her first official visit to the country, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Wednesday called upon the entire community to end child marriages and voice their commitment to change the lives of girls and young women for the […]
The PTI government must help Thar
Do we really care about our people? Do we care how people are suffering? Do we care about the problems the people of Thar are facing? We do not. One of the biggest problems the people of Thar are facing is the shortage of water. There is limited groundwater, which is pretty much the only […]