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		<title>All-out efforts afoot to provide pure water, food to rain victims: DCO Badin</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/14/all-out-efforts-afoot-to-provide-pure-water-food-to-rain-victims-dco-badin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Badin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BADIN: District Coordination Officer (DCO) Badin Dr. Kazim Hussain Jatoi claimed that the district government is making all-out efforts to provide food, shelter, drinking water and health facilities to the people of rain and flood-hit ...]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change to deepen hunger in the Pacific: ADB</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/13/climate-change-to-deepen-hunger-in-the-pacific-adb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/13/climate-change-to-deepen-hunger-in-the-pacific-adb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Development Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coastal erosion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[floods in Pakistan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pak-times.com/?p=16635</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: Climate change threatens to increase hunger and malnutrition among the Pacific region&#8217;s poorest people unless there is action soon, says a new report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The region is already experiencing the ...]]></description>
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		<title>LHDP launches relief work in rain-hit Badin</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/11/lhdp-launches-relief-work-in-rain-hit-badin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/11/lhdp-launches-relief-work-in-rain-hit-badin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Badin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Displaced]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laar Humanitarian and Development Organisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NDMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saleem Shaikh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sindh Rains]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BADIN: Drabbed in untidy cloths and holding an stick in her left hand Lakshmi Menghwar complains that since rain hit her village in Khoski town of Badin district she and her family is without food, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Special CM Relief Fund soon to address rain victims&#8217; miseries</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/09/special-cm-relief-fund-soon-to-address-rain-victims-miseries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/09/special-cm-relief-fund-soon-to-address-rain-victims-miseries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[floods in Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sindh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sindh Chief Minister's Relief Fund]]></category>

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KARACHI: A special &#8220;Sindh Chief Minister&#8217;s Relief Fund&#8221; will be established, provincial legislators and government employees will make contributions from their salaries for the rain-affected people. 
This was decided in a meeting here Friday chaired by Chief Minister ...]]></description>
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		<title>New monsoon spell in Sindh from Sunday: Met</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/09/new-monsoon-spell-in-sindh-from-sunday-met/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/09/new-monsoon-spell-in-sindh-from-sunday-met/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Met]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moonson Rain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sindh]]></category>

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KARACHI: The Met office has said that new monsoon spell is in the making and likely to hit Sindh on Sunday.

&#8220;Heavy rains are expected in the flood affected areas of the province,&#8221; said Pakistan Meteorological Department ...]]></description>
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		<title>Japan provides relief goods for flood victims in Sindh</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/09/japan-provides-relief-goods-for-flood-victims-in-sindh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/09/japan-provides-relief-goods-for-flood-victims-in-sindh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
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KARACHI: The Government of Japan has decided to provide emergency relief goods worth about Rs. 37.5 million for the rain victims in the province.

 This was said in a press release of the Consulate General of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Over 182 killed, 5.5 mln affected in rain-battered Sindh: PDMA report</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/09/over-182-killed-5-5-mln-affected-in-rain-battered-sindh-pdma-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/09/over-182-killed-5-5-mln-affected-in-rain-battered-sindh-pdma-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Affectees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Badin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: The death toll from recent torrential rains in Sindh has soared beyond182 people while around 5.5 million others have been affected, according to Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA).
The PDMA’s latest reports about the losses ...]]></description>
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		<title>‘Bhitaro and Kaloi’ UCs of Tharparkar suffered losses worth Rs3.54 bln: AWARE survey</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/06/%e2%80%98bhitaro-and-kaloi%e2%80%99-ucs-of-tharparkar-suffered-losses-worth-rs3-54-bln-aware-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture in Pakistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHACHRO/UMERKOT: The current wave of the devastating torrential monsoon rains in Tharparkar district has emerged to be the worst human catastrophe in the desert’s history, rendering hundreds of thousands Tharis displaced and has swept away ...]]></description>
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		<title>Karachiities without water on Eid days as power supply suspended to Gharo pumping station</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/03/karachities-without-water-on-eid-days-as-power-supply-suspended-to-gharo-pumping-stations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/09/03/karachities-without-water-on-eid-days-as-power-supply-suspended-to-gharo-pumping-stations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 12:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karachi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KW&&SB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thatta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[THATTA/KARACHI: An extended power disruption in the district left the Gharo pumping station non-operational for more than three 50 hours, causing water shortage in eight towns of the port city of Karachi that were almost ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sindh Governor urges unity for peace in Sindh</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/30/sindh-governor-urges-unity-for-peace-in-sindh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/30/sindh-governor-urges-unity-for-peace-in-sindh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eid-ul-fitr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karachi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sindh Governor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: Governor of Sindh, Dr. Ishrat ul Ebad Khan, in his Eid message to the masses has asked them to maintain unity in their ranks as this was prerequisite for progress and prosperity of Sindh.

He said Eid festival ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sindh CM chairs moot to review operation against criminals</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/30/sindh-cm-chairs-moot-to-review-operation-against-criminals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/30/sindh-cm-chairs-moot-to-review-operation-against-criminals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criminals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[operation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sindh Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syed Qaim Ali Shah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[target killing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pak-times.com/?p=16565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: A high level meeting chaired by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah Tuesday reviewed the on-going operation against criminals and law and order situation in the province.

According  to a spokesman of the CM House here, the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sanitary workers Eid vacations canceled as rains hit Karachi</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/30/eid-holidays-of-all-civic-agencies-anualled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/30/eid-holidays-of-all-civic-agencies-anualled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DHA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karachi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: The Sindh Local Government Department has cancelled the Eid holidays of all the officials of concerned civic agencies to avoid possible post-rain water and sewerage problems.
The gutters in most of the areas started overflowing, submerging streets ...]]></description>
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		<title>Imran Khan Foundation launches relief work in rain-hit Badin</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/30/imran-khan-foundation-launches-relief-work-in-rain-hit-badin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/30/imran-khan-foundation-launches-relief-work-in-rain-hit-badin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: : About 1000 families of Badin were provided emergency food rations to tide them over the Eid holidays. The misery of the rain affected persons in District Badin has been compounded by the second ...]]></description>
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		<title>AWARE arranges safe potable water for flood-hit people in Tharparkar</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/27/aware-arranges-safe-potable-water-for-flood-hit-people-in-tharparkar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/27/aware-arranges-safe-potable-water-for-flood-hit-people-in-tharparkar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AWARE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drinking Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safe sanitation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Unhygienic food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water-borne diseases]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[UMERKOT: Displaced by raging flood caused by torrential rains in lower Sindh districts, the affected families have taken refugee on the sandy dunes near Naukot town of Tharparkar district.
According to AWARE officials, while the dislocated ...]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change is enhancing extreme weather events in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/19/climate-change-is-enhancing-extreme-weather-events-in-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/19/climate-change-is-enhancing-extreme-weather-events-in-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extreme Weather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[floods in Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sindh Rains]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: Former director general of the Pakistan Meteorological Department and prominent climatologist Dr. Qamar uz Zaman chaudhry has linked the recent devastating flood in southern Sindh districts caused by torrential rains to climate change.
“Having looked ...]]></description>
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