Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Jan Khaskheli
Hyderabad: Hundreds of fishermen, dependant on freshwater fish, are waiting to receive water from the Indus River to catch fish, especially palla (hilsa). At present, due to changes in weather, the dry river bed has aggravated the ...

Saturday, June 01, 2013
Jan Khaskheli
KARACHI: The Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS) has sought a lift of ban over fishing for two months – June and July – to enable poverty-stricken fishermen to sustain economic pressure. The ban is effective from June 1 (today). ...

Monday, May 13, 2013
Jan Khaskheli
HYDERABAD: The results of Election 2013 in Sindh have exposed those political activists, nationalists, civil society representatives, writers and intellectuals, who led the movement against the previous (PPP-led) government, accusing ...

Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Jan Khaskheli
For the 2013 elections, three parties have nominated Sindhi nationalist candidates. But instead of coming up with their own agenda, the nationalists are just campaigning on anti-PPP rhetoric. Political analysts say that Sindhi ...

Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Jan Khaskheli
The PPP leadership is avoiding people-to-people contact in the run up to the elections but a provincial assembly seat in Thatta seems to be the exception. In the running for PS-88, Ghorabari, Thatta district is Owais Muzaffar Tappi. ...

Monday, April 29, 2013
Jan Khaskheli
Following the apparent rise of a seemingly sturdy opposition, Makhdoom Amin Faheem has been scurrying to reactivate old relationships and salvage his family’s influence in the district of Matiari. The Pakistan Peoples Party ...

Friday, April 12, 2013
Jan Khaskheli
HYDERABAD: A candidate of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Fakhrul Islam, was killed on Thursday by unknown motorcyclists here near Hala Naka, spreading panic in the city. He was the party’s candidate from two constituencies ...

Sunday, April 07, 2013
Jan Khaskheli
HYDERABAD: Because of the poor irrigation system in Sindh, crop cultivation patterns are changing in the province, and it’s not a change for the better. For example, delta crops are being introduced in areas where other crops are ...

Thursday, March 28, 2013
Jan Khaskheli
HYDERABAD: Depleting grazing fields, forests, fresh water scarcity, and unavailability of fodder resources are main causes of declining number of domesticating buffalos, cows and other milking animals in rural villages. But, farmers ...

Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Jan Khaskheli
Hyderabad: A group of industrialists from Karachi and the US distributed 300 solar lanterns among skilled women of the remote coastal village, Haji Umar Jat, Thatta district. The village women produce Jat embroidery, which is hard to ...