Archive for November, 2010
By Amar Guriro Published: November 26, 2010 Sindh Wildlife Minister Dr Daya Ram Essrani has gifted nine precious hunting peregrine falcons, recovered by his department during a raid, to an Arab dignitary who is reportedly a close friend of President Asif Ali Zardari. The falcons were recovered on the first day of Eidul Azha during [...]
* A man frustrated by a marriage rejection burns himself and his friend’s three daughters alive in Hala Text by Amar Guriro Photo by Akbar Baloch The cruelest of crimes seem to happen for the smallest of reasons in the smallest of towns. Sleepy towns like Hala, where the wheat crop was just harvested and [...]
By: Amar Guriro Published: November 04, 2010 Bhooro Menghwar, a landless peasant belonging to the Dalit caste of Hindus (so-called untouchables), sold his last pair of goats and a cow after having sold everything else in his house to save the life of his six-year-old daughter Veena, who is suffering from severe aplastic anemia. “The [...]
* KPT authorities say ‘Mara Pani’ or Red Tide of poisonous algae to blame By Amar Guriro The mysterious arrival of thousands of dead fish of different sizes into the backwaters of the Karachi harbor, near Baba Island and Bhitt Island, late Saturday night, has created panic among fishermen but the Karachi Port Trust authorities [...]
