Experts warn of looming water crisis in country on December 27, 2017SUKKUR: Prof Dr Abdul Latif Qureshi Tuesday said that Pakistan could face an acute shortage of water in 2025 due to reduction in per capita water availability. Talking to local farmers and Agriculture Service Providers (ASPs) at a workshop organised by Institute of Water Resources Engineering and Management (IWREM) at US-Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies […]
Date growers protest against trade cartel on August 16, 2017SUKKUR: A rally was taken out by growers of dates against the cartel of traders of Agha Qadir Dad Market Sukkur and Khairpur. More than 300 growers from different parts of Sukkur and Khairpur district including Hafiz Abdul Haleem, Haji Sadurdin Phulpoto, Dr Abdul Waheed Mastoi,Shahzado Chijan, Mushtaque Arejo, Piyaro Phulpoto, Yaseen Memon, Abdul Jabbar […]
Measles outbreak claims five lives in Rohri on July 30, 2017SUKKUR: Measles (chickenpox) outbreak in Rohri and its adjoining areas claimed lives of five children, including Azra aged 5 and Gulshin Meerani aged 4. Hundreds of affected children have also been brought to Rohri taluka hospital. The parents blamed district health department for lapse in carrying out vaccination drive which according to them could have […]
Most of CCTV cameras in Sukkur non-functional on July 3, 2017 SUKKUR: More than 42 close circuit (CCTV) cameras which were installed in 2012 at a cost of more than Rs.11 million in different parts of Sukkur are out of order for the last two years, Daily Times learnt on Sunday. According to details obtained by this scribe Sukkur police had launched a ‘video surveillance […]
Shia pilgrims stopped at Iran border over security on June 24, 2017SUKKUR: Thousands of Shia Zaireen (pilgrims) hailing from Sukkur, Khairpur, Ghotki and other parts of Sindh are not being allowed to leave the Taftan border area for Quetta due to lack of security after having visited the holy shrines of Imams of Shia Islam in Iran and Iraq. They were being forced to stay at […]