Earlier this month, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the government would send money, food and medicine to the area.
The provincial government and the Pakistani armed forces will get together to help you AND to get rid of your troubles. Now join me and chant: Long Live Pakistan.
People in Tharparkar live in small, dusty villages. They have long lacked good health care services and dependable water supplies.
Harris Khalique is a public policy expert. He says the real problem is a lack of effective government planning.
Malnutrition or malnourished is not caused because of a famine or a drought in Thar -- it is a permanent condition, unfortunately in Thar. Theres abject, grinding poverty in Tharparker, and its a complete failure of governance, but not just a failure of governance, its also a failure of the economic system within which we live in Pakistan.
The World Bank says one third of Pakistans population lives in poverty. In the drought-affected area, most of the people are non-Muslim. Some observers say this means they do not get the same attention or services as other Pakistanis.
Back in Tharparkar, a woman named Sona brought her daughter to the local hospital. She says poverty and lack of basic services or schools cause children to suffer.
Its a drought now. There are no more rains. We cultivate even if there are only one or two rains. But all the crops dried up when the rains stopped, and nothing can be done. Those blessed with knowledge can easily fill their stomachs, but those who are illiterate, starve.
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