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SUKKUR: The Sindh government on Sunday distributed 507 cheques among the residents of the vicinity of Gorano Reservoir under an annual grant scheme.Reports said the Sindh cabinet had approved the. ....
They say water is life. But can it breed death? Residents in Thar Block-II say a pond of brackish water poses health risks KARACHI: They say water is life. But that may not always be the case. In some ironic situations, as being witnessed in villages near Thar block-II, water can make survival difficult. Among these villages, one is Gorano - the nearest one to a recently created pond, which the villagers deem to be a hazard in the making. The pond, a vast and expanding body of brackish water, was formed after water discharged from Thar Block-II, where work on a coal-fired power plant and coal mining is underway, began accumulating in the area. ....
A Long-billed vulture | Photos by WWF-Pakistan / Zahoor Salmi Abundant and healthy animal carcasses and a suitable habitat with an undisturbed area to lay eggs is all that the vultures in South Asia ask for to thrive. Of the nine South Asian species of this large ungainly bird, eight are found in Pakistan. These include the Oriental White-backed vulture, the Long-billed vulture, the Red-headed vulture, the Egyptian vulture, the Cinereous vulture, the Lammergeier, the Himalayan Griffon vulture and the Eurasian griffon vulture. However, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has placed three of these species on the ‘critically endangered’ list of threatened species. Of these three, the White-backed and the Long-billed vultures are both found in Tharparkar, Sindh. ....