Tharparkar: Pakistan's ongoing catastrophe

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/06/tharparkar-pakistans-ongoing-catastrophe-160629111410198.html'
Date Written:  2016-08-05
Publisher:  Al Jazeera
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX19897

More than 1,500 children under the age of five have died in the Tharparkar district of Pakistan's Sindh province since 2011. Each year, as the death toll climbs, reports are sought, commissions created and emergency plans announced by the provincial government. But none of these seem able to stop the recurring problems plaguing this vast 20,000sq km district.