Express News screengrab of Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah.
According to Mithi taluka hospital, at least 121 children have died during a drought in Tharparkar in three months.
The Sindh chief minister also said that director health as well as the director and the deputy director livestock have been suspended.
He further stated that the affected children were not sent to good hospitals as a result of negligence, which added to the dire situation in the district, adding that there was only one hospital in Tharparkar.
Shah added that the children were dying because of pneumonia and malnutrition.
Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif expressed grief over the deaths caused by the famine in Tharparkar. He stated that the government and people of Punjab are with the affectees in this difficult time.
He instructed the Director General (DG) Provincial Disaster Management Authority Punjab (PDMA) to send relief aid as soon as possible.
Former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry wrote a letter to Chief Justice of Pakistan Tassaduq Hussain Jilani asking him to take notice of the 32 children who died in February as a result of the famine in Tharparkar.
Meanwhile, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Nabeel Gabol asked the Minister for Food Sindh to resign from his portfolio due to the Tharparkar incident.
Talking to the media outside the Parliament House, he said the Sindh government had spent billions of rupees on the Sindh festival but did not take concrete steps to save the lives of children who died in Tharparkar due to food shortage.
He added that the chairman of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari should spend one week in Tharparkar to show solidarity with the families of the children who died.
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@True Karachiwala.....he is (Bilawal zardari) hiding in the twitter...
This is criminal negligence. Government has failed to provide the basic needs of the population. This is really shameful. Authorities responsible for this state of affairs need to be prosecuted.
This is another opening for corruption. In its previous term, PPP announced that rupees one lac or more will be provided to flood affectees in Sindh, but the people hardly got two installment of 20k each. In the same way, this amount of ten crore, that is said to be reserved for famine affected people of Tharparkar, will be put into pockets by PPP stalwarts. I suggest that like RAHUL GHANDHI, Mr. Bilawal Bhutto should play a strong role behind the curtain and make sure that the people of Sindh, who has repeatedly voted PPP - say for out of love, ignorance or absence of suitable opponents in Sindh, are made to realize that their choice was not so bad enough. Due to his overage, the current CM is not fit for the job and he can be replaced with new and young blood. Mr. Bilawal should see his performance in comparison with his counterpart Mr. Shahbaz Sharif, CM of Punjab, who changed the landscape of his province to a considerable level.
Qaim Ali Shah you can't put a price on a life. You may think 2 lacs can make up for a lost child but you are very wrong.
@casimpk: "Taxpayers money"? How do you know that? Was none of the loot money used here?
And eventually all this money will be distributed among the corrupt local PPP politicians of that area.
i just wish the perpetrators and authorities die the same death and suffer same pain as those children and their parents did
sir request you to make large hospital two water plant and make three green houses as they grow their foods and if you will accept my advice this accident never happen
What about those who were sitting on food to be distributed among victims of drought but never did? Are there any charges going to be against them? including you?
Shows how much the PPP-led Sindh government cares about the Sindhi people. Well at least they promoted Sindh Festival with pop music and fashion shows while the kids were dying. Figuratively speaking, the wadera classes got their priorities right. Who really cares about the common man suffering in Karachi or interior Sindh ? I mean seriously, does this even need to be asked ?
Why a case is not registered against CM?
don't give a damn when they were alive but no for the sake of their politics give 2 lacs. Why don't u guys celeberate your victories in sindh festival.
Shame on Sindh Government wasting billion on useful Sindh Festival while 121 children died of drought!
Where was the Sindh Government when children were dying in Thar due to drought??? Oh right, it was busy in conducting Sindh cultural festival.