A Voice of the Unheard Friday, October 2, 2026
THARPARKAR: Tharparkar district in Sindh is mostly desert, with some parts extending into irrigated agricultural plains and others into the hilly areas of Nagarparkar. The district covers 19,637 square kilometres and has a population of around 1.5 million, most of whom depend on a rain-fed agro-pastoral economy for their livelihood. The district’s poverty rate is...
THARPARKAR: Some parts of Tharparkar received no monsoon rain in July and August this year, while others received only sporadic showers. This has pushed the district into drought-like conditions, but the government has yet to start relief measures or declare it a calamity-hit area. The desert district, which covers 19,639 square kilometres, has no irrigation...
UMERKOT: Speakers at a meeting on Friday stressed the need to revamp outdated teaching methods to restore the quality of education in government schools. They were speaking at a meeting titled “Discourse with Stakeholders”, organised by Right To Play, an international non-governmental organisation. Speaking on the occasion, District Officer Education (Literacy) Bilawal Ahmed said conventional...
THARPARKAR: Primary teachers of Tharparkar district took out a protest rally from Bilawal Bhutto- Zardari Park on Tuesday and staged a sit-in at Kashmir Chowk against the non-confirmation of their services and non-payment of their salaries. Addressing a rally the office-bearers of Primary Teachers’ Association alleged that 414 candidates belonging to Tharparkar had passed the...
UMERKOT: Members of victim family along with civil society members and political party’s workers staged three-hour protest in Mithi and Chacharo condemned the gang-rape of a woman of Bheel community and demanded early arrest of the accused. Five days back in a shocking incident a married woman Motan Bheel was gang-raped by 5 people near...
UMERKOT: Shaan Tech distributed solar lantern and solar cell phone charger among position holder students at Govt. Higher Secondary School Umerkot and Govt Girls High School Umerkot for their encouragement, appreciation and to control drop out of such students, and address their study problems during load-shedding here on Wednesday. Brilliant students of Govt. Higher Secondary School...
UMERKOT: In a shocking incident, a married woman was gang-raped by 5 people near village Baprario of Chachro, Tharparkar in front of her husband. According to reports, the victim Motaan was going with her husband Tilu by a desert bus. After sometimes, five people kidnapped them near a village Baprario and dragged woman to nearby...