After Sunita Parmer, five more Dalit women enter race for general seats on June 12, 2018KARACHI: After Sunita Parmar, several other women from the persecuted Dalit community in Sindh have come forward to contest the upcoming election on general seats. As the deadline for submission of nomination papers ended on Monday, six women had submitted their forms for the July 25 election from constituencies in Tharparkar, Umerkot, Sanghar and Mirpurkhas […]
Woman from persecuted Meghwar community announces candidacy from Thar seat on June 7, 2018Mithi: A woman from the country’s Hindu community has announced her intentions to contest the upcoming general election from a provincial assembly constituency in Thar. Sunita Parmar, who belongs to Meghwar community, will contest for PS-56, in Islamkot area of Tharparkar, the district with the highest number of Hindus community members in Pakistan. According to […]
Sunita Parmar, first minority Hindu woman to contest on general seat from Thar Desert on June 6, 2018Mithi: For the first time in Sindh’s Thar Desert, a Hindu scheduled cast woman has announced to contest in general elections that will be held on July 25 this year. Sunita Parmar, a woman from Meghwar community will contest for Sindh Assembly constituency PS-56, in Islamkot area of Tharparkar district. Sindh’s southern bordering district Tharparkar has the […]
Hala’s Makhdooms guarantee loyalty after ticket assurance on June 3, 2018KARACHI: After a meeting with Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) President Asif Zardari on Friday, Sarwari Jamaat Chief Makhdoom Jamiluz Zaman decided not to end the Jamaat’s 51 year old affiliation with PPP. PPP leadership agreed to adjust as many as eight Sarwari Jamaat’s sympathiser candidates by allotting party tickets to them for the upcoming […]
Hala’s disgruntled Makhdooms to remain loyal with PPP after ‘fruitful’ Zardari-Jamil meeting on June 2, 2018KARACHI: Following a ‘fruitful’ meeting with Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) President Asif Zardari on Friday, Sarwari Jamaat chief Makhdoom Jamiluz Zaman has decided not to end Jamaat’s 51-year-old affiliation with Peoples Party. PPP leadership has agreed to adjust as many as 8 Sarwari Jamaat’s sympathiser candidates by allotting party tickets for July 25 general […]
PPP clarifies to retain ‘arrow’, not ‘sword’ as symbol in general elections on May 29, 2018KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians has clarified that it will retain ‘arrow’ symbol to contest July-25 general elections and negated the impression that it was going into polls on its traditional ‘sword’ symbol. Earlier on Tuesday, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) allotted elections symbols to political parties. Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari-led PPP was allotted sword […]
Uncontrolled high blood pressure a growing threat in rural Sindh, AKU study finds on May 18, 2018KARACHI: A new study exploring the risk posed by high blood pressure in rural areas of Sindh has found alarmingly low levels of awareness, and numerous cases of uncontrolled blood pressure despite the use of medication. High blood pressure – or hypertension – is often seen as a ‘lifestyle disease’ associated with urban areas, where […]
Demystifying Sanghar’s chronic healthcare crisis on April 14, 2018SANGHAR: Like the rest of Sindh, Sanghar district is facing a chronic crisis of public healthcare infrastructure. Last week, local media reported an accident from Sanghar city’s suburb Sultankot in which two men died, while one person, Usman, got seriously injured. The injured injured were shifted to Sanghar’s Civil Hospital, the district’s only tertiary care […]
21 million people in Pakistan don’t have access to clean water: report on March 22, 2018KARACHI: The number of people without access to clean water has gone up internationally. Pakistan is one of the top 10 countries with the lowest access to clean water, a fresh report revealed. WaterAid, an international non-profit organisation determined to produce clean water, decent toilets and a hygienic environment for everyone has published The Water […]
Festivities return amid poor arrangements at Manghopir on March 5, 2018Karachi: Sheedi Mela, the annual festival at Manghopir, has returned after a hiatus of seven years owing to the prevailing security situation in the area. But all these years have changed the place, for the worst. The caretakers of Pir Sakhi Sultan’s crocodiles complain that the reptiles have multiplied in number, and the space and […]