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NADRA distributing identities at camps
Survivors at relief camps can get a duplicate of their computerised national identity cards.
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Named after the flooded river after birth on dry land
The twins were born after the family fled to a relief camp set up outside IBA in Sukkur.
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Kotri Barrage in peak flood
Dozens of villages were submerged around Thatta with people scrambling to pile sandbags at strategic locations.
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Inviting the military
The startling call made by the MQM leader for the army to step in and remove corrupt politicians defies comprehension.
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Water level at Kotri Barrage crosses 900,000 cusecs
Several villages in Hyderabad are inundated as Kotri Barrage braces for the worst flood in 50 years.
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Low intensity blasts in Daharki scare patients
Unidentified men planted three time-bombs wrapped in plastic bags under the doctor’s table.
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Beggars can be choosers
Beggars have figured out a new way to extract money from the city’s philanthropists.
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Sinking silently
According to an assessment of the PDMA, the flood has directly affected about 20 districts of Sindh.
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Child dies of gastroenteritis in Karachi camp
Due to the provision of substandard health facilities, fatal diseases, such as cholera and typhoid, can spread.
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Thatta residents forced to set camp themselves
Flood survivors complained that the government is doing nothing for them.
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An evening with the dacoit
Gul Sher Jageerani has evaded the law for some 30 years.
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Police refuse to register rape case against SHO: NGO
The police refused to register a rape case against the SHO due to pressure allegedly from “higher police officials”.
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Brother of ANP MNA gunned down
Another Awami National Party (ANP) worker was gunned down near Caltex Petrol Pump, Civic Centre.
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Blood spills over land
At least two people were gunned down and around 14 including three policemen wounded in crossfire across Karachi.
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Karachi playing host to 29,000 IDPs
The city govt is presently hosting 29,147 flood survivors in 23 relief camps while six other camps are being set up.
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Flood survivors display interfaith harmony
As floods rage through Sindh, many Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs have taken shelter at temples and gurdwaras.
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Caught between duty and family
As flies swarm over rotting wheat at a godown in Kot Addu, two men argue over uneven aid distribution.
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High-rise homes or not, we’re outta here!
Many residents of the high-rise buildings near the Indus River bank have also evacuated their apartments.
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Sindh govt promises 6-month welfare
According to Mehdi, 29,147 flood survivors have reached Karachi from the flood-affected areas so far.
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City life woos some, others just want to go back
The Sindh police relief camp in Gadap Town looks impressive with 30 blocks and comprises 936 flats.
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Gramophones, 10 wives and the cacophony of death
‘Come September’ plays on an old gramophone that Naeem Soomro has dragged out to take to Karachi.
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Four die of gastroenteritis
Three children and a woman died of gastroenteritis in Thul on Sunday.
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‘We feel like VIPs at this camp’
“They're kind and we are being looked after properly,” a flood survivor who is currently living at a relief camp said.
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Sukkur residents decry 72 hours of no power
A three-day electricity breakdown in Sukkur drove residents to stage a sit-in at the Station Road on Sunday.
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‘21 people died in Sindh rains and floods so far’
“Around 0.3 million has fallen ill with various diseases," the minister said while addressing a press conference.
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MQM to back martial law-like steps: Altaf
MQM chief Altaf Hussain launched a blistering attack on politicians and feudal landlords on Sunday.
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Pressure on Kotri keeps Sindh on tenterhooks
A dyke built temporarily at the Ratodero-Khuzdar highway in Shahdadkot struggled to prevent floodwater.
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Altaf slams 'corrupt politicians shopping abroad'
MQM chief says if 'patriotic Generals' take martial law-like step against corrupt politicians, MQM will support them.
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Another day of murders
At least five more men were murdered and one injured on Saturday in the ongoing wave of target killings.
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Six flood survivors electrocuted
Six people were killed and a dozen others were injured when their tractor trolley hit a live high-tension wire.
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IDPs even lose their identity
With no identification documents to prove who they are, flood survivors are now just nameless citizens.
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Gastroenteritis claiming lives at camps
More than 500,000 people in relief camps around the Guddu and Sukkur barrages now fighting the threat of an epidemic.
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Salvation: holy men ‘protected’ by flood
Divinity triumphed over disaster, claimed the people of Ghouspur after seeing what they termed a miracle.
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WWF-P sets up five artificial wetlands
Two of the wetlands have been established in Nawabshah district and three in Sanghar.
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Pressure mounting on Kotri Barrage
Many villages in Hyderabad, Jamshoro and Thatta districts have been inundated.
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Govt blamed for flood devastation in villages
Residents believe that the flooding would not have happened if the authorities had not created breaches.
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Karachi’s water at risk
The city’s water supply might be drastically affected when floodwaters hit the coastal areas of Thatta.
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At the mercy of God and ‘Mir sahib’
Karampur was completely inundated with no help arriving, its starving people headed towards the production minister.
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2 women killed in stampede for flour
Several others were injured in a stampede when rations were being distributed at the Sau Quarter area of Korangi.
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Sindh mulls soft loans, jobs for survivors
“They are the sons of the soil and the government will not let them be displaced,” sources quoted the CM as...
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Med college applicants unable to submit forms
The applicants were unable to submit forms because of the tension and violence sparked by target killings in the city.
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Violence continues, 2 shot dead in Karachi
Unidentified gunmen shot dead two people in Banaras and Metroville areas.
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Anguished farmers wait till the cows can come home
Karim Dino Shar is applying a paste of tumeric and oil to a goat’s leg at a camp near the new bus terminal in Sukkur.
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SHC orders closure of illegal hydrants in 4 weeks
SHC directed the deputy inspectors general of police of the east and west zones to personally monitor illegal hydrants
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From bad to worse at relief camps
The number of casualities from water-borne diseases can increase at an alarming rate if vaccines are not sent.
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Go ahead and fail me, but I have to go help the flood survivors
A group of five students from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture decided to help in relief efforts.
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Couple, child dies from electrocution
Zahiran had gone to the rooftop to lay out washed clothes on their clothesline that was made up of an electric wire.
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Death visits, not the doctor
Flood survivors said that four of the deaths were children with gastroenteritis with two occurring on Wednesday.
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Violence and vendettas
The PPP, does not have the answer to Karachi’s political, ethnic and sectarian violence.
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Floods test political waters
Political party representatives stand guard over embankments in their respective areas in the city.