Food shortage evidently caused deaths in Thar: SHC CJ

KARACHI: The SHC took notice over the delay in the provision of food and relief supplies to Tharparkar and directed the Sindh chief secretary to make urgent arrangements to supply relief goods to the affected families.Hearing identical petitions regarding the government’s negligence in providing relief and health facilities to the drought-affected people of Thar, the SHC division bench headed by Chief Justice Maqbool Baqar expressed concern that despite the passage of three months since the calamity began, 22,758 families were still without food or relief supplies from the governmen