Pakistan suffers from power shortage
Pakistan is facing severe power crisis since a decade, as against the demand of about 19000MW electricity, it produces hardly 11000 to 12000MW through its all resources including hydro power plants installed at dams and some others operating on furnace oil and gas besides two nuclear power plants. Some power plants of very small capacity […]
A road vendor’s sleeping infant
Watermelon is the fruit of summer season and is grown in abundance in Pakistan especially along both sides of River Indus. A watermelon weighs three to six kilogram or eight kilograms. The watermelon, at the start of season, is sold for Pakistani rupees.50 (around half a dollar) that declines to less than quarter dollar as […]
Jumping Into Water May Be Only Way To Endure 47’C
Beating the Heat: Camera’s eye caught a person jumping from the bridge of a canal in Larkana District, Sindh province of Pakistan, where the temperature has crossed 47.0 degrees centigrade. The canals are closed due to water shortage in Indus river, but the scanty water available in canals offer good opportunity to humans and animals alike […]
Pakistani brick-making workers suffer inhumane treatment
Mud bricks and fire-baked bricks are used in construction across Pakistan except Karachi, the biggest city of the country located at Arabian Sea Coast in South where the buildings are erected using concrete blocks. The mud bricks and fire-baked bricks are traditionally used since ancient days in this region as they control the severity of […]
Four Conjoined Kittens
Four conjoined kittens, which a cat gave birth in Larkana town of Sindh province of Pakistan. A man brought these conjoined kittens to the press club to show them to journalists. Birth of conjoined babies to women takes place but of conjoined kittens was strange for the people.
Guilty verdict given on incumbent Pakistani Prime Minister
Islamabad— The Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan has ruled that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is guilty of contempt of court for refusing to obey an order to write to the authorities in Switzerland asking them to re-open corruption cases against country’s President Asif Ali Zardari. “For reasons to be recorded later, the prime minister […]
Bicycle, A Necessicity Of Life In Pakistan
Bicycle, the cheapest mode of transport for the poor around the globe, has a very different usage in Pakistan. The people here, especially in rural areas, not only travel on bicycle to and from workplace but use it as cargo-carrier. In this picture, a man carries four heavy wooden cots, the traditional beds with four […]
Rural Pakistanis Living In Worsening Poverty
In Pakistan approximately two-thirds of the people live in rural areas and rural poverty is a major destabilizing factor. Authoritative studies have documented rising poverty levels in the country. Rural poverty was estimated at 27 percent in 2005-06 in Pakistan. According to another study, in southern Sindh province, 38 percent of the rural population lives […]
Earthenware Vendor in Pakistan
This is a photograph of a roadside vendor selling earthen pots in Larkana district of Sindh province of Pakistan. The fire-baked earthen pots are sold in rural areas but now such vendors could also be found in big cities where the people buy these pots for their natural beauty.
Time-Honored Method of Agriculture
(Photo: Jamal Daudpoto) A photograph above shows centuries-old agriculture method being used in 21st century in Pakistan. Mechanized agriculture has been introduced in Pakistan since many decades ago but every landholder cannot afford to buy or even hire the machinery used to plough the land for sowing the crops. The poor landholders and peasants […]
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