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		<title>SCOPE, PPAF launch livelihood uplift programme</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2012/01/18/scope-launches-livelihood-uplift-programme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saleem Shaikh]]></category>
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Thatta,  January 18: Members of civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations and political leaders have pressed on need to take all-out efforts to launch livelihood development programmes to alleviate poverty in Sindh.
They also noted that rising ...]]></description>
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		<title>Flood relief work in South Pakistan at risk from lack of funds</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/08/flood-relief-work-in-south-pakistan-at-risk-from-lack-of-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/08/flood-relief-work-in-south-pakistan-at-risk-from-lack-of-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saleem Shaikh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: Widow Hoori Fatima, 76, was still struggling with grief over the death of her son Ali Raza, the family’s only breadwinner, in late October.
Wiping her tears away with her headscarf, Fatima said her son ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hindu Kush-Himalaya &#8216;vulnerable&#8217; to climate change &#8211; Study</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/05/hindu-kush-himalaya-vulnerable-to-climate-change-study/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/05/hindu-kush-himalaya-vulnerable-to-climate-change-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture in Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Durban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glacier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hindu Kush-Himalaya. Climate Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, December 4: Findings from the  most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt  in Asia’s mountainous Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region—site of Mount Everest  and many ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tackling water woes thru rainwater harvesting in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/10/26/tackling-water-woes-thru-rainwater-harvesting-in-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/10/26/tackling-water-woes-thru-rainwater-harvesting-in-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rainwater Harvesting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saleem Shaikh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sukaar Foundation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tharparkar, Pakistan: Wearing colourful traditional dresses with silver jewellery and bangles on their arms, the women of Tharparkar district look festive. But the empty earthen pots they carry tell a different story.
“Walking for three miles ...]]></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>
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		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Food insecurity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laar Humanitarian and Development Organisation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saleem Shaikh]]></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>‘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>
		<comments>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/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
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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>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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DHA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karachi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[overflowing gutters]]></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>
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		<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>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>
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		<category><![CDATA[floods in Pakistan]]></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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		<title>Sindh Env. Minister presses for regular monitoring of polluting vehicles</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/16/sindh-env-minister-presses-for-regular-monitoring-of-polluting-vehicles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/16/sindh-env-minister-presses-for-regular-monitoring-of-polluting-vehicles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Polluting vehicles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: Minister for Environment and Alternative Energy, Sindh Muhammad Shaharyar Khan Mahar has said that there is pressing need to continue campaign against vehicular emission on regular basis so that one of the important contributors ...]]></description>
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		<title>Food, potable water still off-hands in rain-hit Sindh</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/15/food-potable-water-still-off-hands-rain-hit-sindh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/15/food-potable-water-still-off-hands-rain-hit-sindh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Badin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drinking Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[floods in Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food insecurity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BADIN: Recent floods and rain in district Badin and Mirpurkhas have led to acute shortage of safe drinking water and food. Prices of edible food items in the local markets have also gone up due ...]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Forum prepares tomorrow&#8217;s leaders to address climate change adaptation</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/08/youth-forum-prepares-tomorrows-leaders-to-address-climate-change-adaptation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/08/youth-forum-prepares-tomorrows-leaders-to-address-climate-change-adaptation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noreen Gill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week-long training and knowledge sharing workshop for young people from 17 Asian countries opened today in Kathmandu, helping to build the next generation of leadership in sustainable mountain development and climate actions.
The ‘Asia-Pacific Youth ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rainwater harvesting can help address water woes in Thar</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/02/rainwater-harvesting-can-help-address-water-woes-in-thar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/02/rainwater-harvesting-can-help-address-water-woes-in-thar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dugwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rainwater]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sukaar Foundation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mithi, Tharparkar: Residents of Morry-je-Wandh village feel relieved of the pain they suffer due to toilsome process of obtaining water from a dugwell.
“Walking for three kilometers and toiling to roll up water from a some ...]]></description>
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		<title>ECNEC okays 15 projects worth Rs154.52 BN</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/29/ecnec-okays-15-projects-worth-rs154-52-bn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/29/ecnec-okays-15-projects-worth-rs154-52-bn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finance Minister]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved 15 projects of national importance costing Rs154.52 billion.
The committee which was held here on Friday with Federal Minister for Finance, Dr. Abdul Hafeez ...]]></description>
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