The jobs were sanctioned in education, health, LG, works & services and other provincial departments
Karachi: Sindh government on Wednesday approved 340 jobs under deceased quota in various provincial departments.
The approval was given in a meeting held at Sindh Secretariat under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah regarding implementation of deceased quota (quota fixed for legal heirs of government employees who died during Service).
Senior Member Board of Revenue Qazi Shahid Pervez, Secretary Food Abdul Haleem Sheikh, Secretary Culture Ali Akbar Laghari and other secretaries of various departments attended the meeting.
The meeting approved 207 jobs in school education department, 34 in Health, 5 in irrigation, 32 in Local Government, 12 in works and services department, 9 in agriculture, 8 in college education, 8 in livestock, 1 in food, 6 in public health engineering, 4 jobs in Home Department, 8 in Services & General Administration, 1 in Chief Minister’s Secretariat and 2 in Revenue Department.
Chief Secretary also sought report from all secretaries and deputy commissioners about District Recruitment Committees (DRC), the issues of death quota, disability quota and regularization of employees and directed that reports with comments should also be submitted timely in court cases.
The provincial government has started implementing the Sindh High Court verdict to make arrangements for providing jobs to children of deceased employees of various departments under the deceased employees’ son quota.
The Telehelp services will connect mental health patients with health practitioners at various levels through a network of lady health workers across the desert district
By GR Junejo
Mithi: Tharparkar, one of the most unprivileged districts of Sindh, has taken lead to initiate provision of mental health services to the masses through a network of the health workforce.
The services will connect mental health patients with health practitioners at various levels through a network of lady health workers working across the desert district Tharparkar’s villages.
This is being done for the first time in Pakistan which has touched the most sensitive and untouched health services areas and Tharparkar has taken the lead in launching it, this was announced by Chairman, Sindh Mental Health Authority (SMHA) Senator Dr. Karim Khawaja at a concluding ceremony of 3-day training workshop on ‘Telehelp Services on Mental Health’ held here on Wednesday.
Dr. Khawaja said that it is a multi-stakeholder partnership between SMHA, Thar Foundation, Sindh Health Department, Civil Hospital Mithi, Sir Cowasjee Institute of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Hyderabad (SCIPBS) and Liaquat University of Medical & Health Licenses (LUMHS).
He said they will launch first-ever data on the state of mental health in Sindh next month which will reveal astonishing figures on the issue.
“Mental health service is the less attentive area across Pakistan, which needs immediate attention”, he said and added, “Currently, Sindh’s 20 districts have no specialist physiatrists working in the public sector.”
Dr. Gordhan Das, District Health Officer (DHO) of Tharparkar said this initiative will help to gather mental health trends on regular basis and curb the disturbing trend of increasing suicides in Tharparkar by providing proactive counselling/treatment services to identified patients.
He said Health Department will continue to provide its infrastructure and community health workforce for training and counselling services and provision of medicines and supplies to vulnerable patients.
The Telehelp service will contribute by setting up counselling services in the local language through a trained health workforce and qualified practitioners, a mobile app for monitoring and reporting of vulnerable cases, and other logistical support and referring seriously ailing patients to district headquarters and Hyderabad if required.
SMHA is acting as a coordinating and lynchpin partner in the achievement of the aims of the project and has established Thar Telehelp health services connecting Talukas of Thar with a panel of specialist psychiatrists.
Dr. Gul Muneer Vistro, Medical Superintendent Civil Hospital Mithi said Tharparkar is among very districts of Sindh where they have established a dedicated ward with a specialist providing dedicated health care services to 600 patients a month.
Dr. Yousaf Kunbhar, Director of Health Services Mirpurkhas assured Health Department’s full support to provide free medical aid to ailing patients. “Tharparkar is considered as one of the districts of Sindh where cases of suicides are at the rise due to a variety of psychosocial and socioeconomic reasons”, he said.
Dr. Bharat Kumar, In-charge Psychiatry Ward Mithi said the increasing trend of suicides in the district warranted urgent attention as he deals with very serious patients who have tendencies to attempt suicide.
He was of the view that mental health patients need to be treated at a very early stage adopting a modern approach so that they should not take the extreme steps of attempting and committing suicide.
Mental Health experts Dr. Jamil Junejo and Public Health specialist Dr. Gulzar Usman also addressed trainees of the workshop and oriented them on how to handle ailing patients.
At the end of the workshop, the chief guest of the workshop distributed certificates among the participating trainees.
Some security guards had stolen the property worth Rs.80 million from a mobile phone company’s warehouse in Malir Karachi
Makhdoom Bilawal Police of Dadu district conducts raid at a village and arrests accused Sarfaraz Chandio; two other accomplices managed to escape
By Allah Bux Khushik
Dadu: The local police have arrested a security guard of a private company and recovered mobile phone sets, calling cards, SIMs and other related items worth over Rs.40 million which he had stolen from a warehouse of a mobile company from Karachi.
The police conducted a raid on a tip off at village Ghulam Panhwar near bypass in the jurisdiction of Makdoom Bilawal police station.
SSP Dadu district Aijaz Ahmed Shaikh told that ZONG Company’s security guards had reportedly stolen 110 ITEAL phones, thousands of scratch cards, SIMS and other valuable things worth Rs.80 million from ZONG warehouse located in Port Qasim area of Malir District of Karachi on January 02, 2021. The company had lodged FIR at Sukhan police station of Malir district Karachi.
SSP said that company officials had identified from CCTV cameras footage that their security guards were seen stealing the goods.
He said that on a tip off a team of Makdoom Bilawal Police station of Dadu led by SHO Nadeem Solangi raided at village Ghulam Panhwar and arrested accused Sarfaraz alias Asad Chandio originally hailing from Qambar-Shahdad Kot and recovered 17 cartons of scratch calling cards, mobile phones and SIMs worth over Rs.40. million.
SSP said that two accused security guards namely Muhammad Salih and Nadir Panhwar managed to escape from the village. “The raid was conducted at the time when the accused persons were trying to transfer the stolen property to unknown place,” he said.
He said that a new FIR under section 411 (recovering stolen property) was also lodged at Makdoom Bilawal police station against arrested accused Sarfaraz Chandio and his accomplices by state on complaint of ASI Pahlwan Khan.
Makdoom Bilawal produced accused Sarfaraz Chandio in Dadu’s local court and got 3-day remand for further investigation.
SHO Makdoom Bilawal police Nadeem Solangi said that arrested accused is being interrogated and very soon other stolen property of Mobile Phone Company will be recovered and absconding offenders will be arrested.
Her name was ‘Sapna’ (which means ‘dream’ in the Sindhi language), but she was really not a dream. She made several dreams of numerous eyes, a reality.
January 27 marks the second year of departure of Naila Gul “Sapna” Qazi, Sindhi poet, writer, Educationist and Compere
By Sapna Nusrat
“How a death is caused by a suicide, different than an ordinary physical death,” writes Sapna Gul Qazi in one of her prose-pieces… really a thought-provoking question.
After reading this sentence, I deep dive into the ocean of my thoughts and think that we meet with people… we live with people… we spend our time with them… Everyone reflects in a different angle and perspective. Everyone’s living style is distinctive. Some people become great… some are made great and some are a pride for the ‘greatness’; whereas a few of the millions are born ‘great’. They influence the people around them, by their character, talent, hard work, vigor and intellectual strength.
Prof Naila Gul Qazi, esteemed as ‘Sapna Gul’ in the literary circles of Sindh, was the eldest daughter of Maqsood Gul, a renowned and celebrated poet and scholar of Sindh. She was born on December 8, 1977, at Naodero town of district Larkano. She belonged to a well-educated and civilized Qazi family, very well-known in the literary as well as educational circles of Sindh. Naila was an illustrious daughter of the land, who can undoubtedly be counted among one the most versatile personalities, having spatial abilities in the multiple creative fields of fine arts, including literature, visual arts and radio; who delivered throughout her life efficiently. She rendered her services in several fields by her wisdom and was honored against her meritorious services to education and literature. She was a teacher by profession as well as nature, who taught innovatively. She was a self-asserting individual of the society, who tried to enlighten the folks around her, with the beacon of knowledge, affection and kindness. That’s why she lives in the thoughts of numerous people and will always remain.
She had a highly appreciated pearl of wisdom. She spread spirit among people by her heroic deeds. She spent her maximum time in literary activities, under no shadow of a doubt. She was immensely an outstanding writer of prose and poetry in the Sindhi language, a talented radio host, a calligrapher, a sketch artist, a handicraft-person (artisan), an educator as well as an educationist and an intellectual. She received her Intermediate degree from Ratodero, her hometown, 29 kilometers from Larkano, the fourth largest city of Sindh, after passing her matriculation. She put great efforts into her education accomplishments. She was honored with “Vice Chancellor’s Gold Medal” while achieving her ‘First Class –First position” in her Master’s degree in Sindhi literature from the Khairpur alma-mater, named after the great poet of the land, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai. She was deeply engaged in educational activities under the tutelage of her eminent father Maqsood Gul. She was doing her doctorate with full zest, after her success in Sindh public service commission’s examination in 2007 and being an important part of the noble profession of teaching in 2008. After being associated with the education department, Government of Sindh, she taught as a lecturer in Government Girl’s Degree College Larkano and the newly-established Government Begum Nusrat Bhutto Girl’s Degree College at Larkano till her last breath.
Being a poet, Sapna composed poetry, by capturing pretty images, personifying them elegantly and efficiently. Her poetry was not only the voice of her within but also the sketch of lives around her, portraying their griefs and the sorrows of her soil and her people. In prose, her pen performed like a perfect communicative tool, being the mirror of the society. She expressed through research papers, essays, articles, blogs, newspaper columns and reviews. Her research monograph on ‘Sassui’, the conceptual local folklore character, written as a final year assignment thesis for her masters in Sindhi literature is a marvelous piece of prose and research, in which she has portrayed Sassui, as it is mentioned in the message of our classical poets.
Naila Gul Sapna Qazi, in the lap of her father Maqsood Gul. Her mother Gulnadr Badr and uncle Qazi Manzar Hayat also seen in the picture – Sindh Courier
Being a debater, Naila was an outstanding orator right from her childhood and had the art of engaging audience, through her argumental talk and the craft of summing up a long conversation in a brief piece of talk. Being a stage compere, she hosted ample educational seminars, conferences and various gatherings in the educational institutions she belonged to, i.e. either where she was taught or where she taught. As a radio compere, she hosted uncountable radio transmissions from Hot FM 105 radio network’s Larkana station with effect from 2013 till her departure, which were aired on the provincial hook-up network of the said radio and were deeply liked by the listeners.
While she was ascending in terms of her creative expression, she left us two years back, on January 27, after a short illness, at the age of 42. She is resting at Karachi’s Mehran Depot Road Malir cemetery. Her name was ‘Sapna’ (which means ‘dream’ in the Sindhi language), but she was really not a dream. She made several dreams of numerous eyes, a reality. Those include the dreams of dignity, prosperity and well-being of the people of Sindh and this great motherland, herself. Therefore, she will be remembered till the next plentiful years to come.
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About the Author
The author is a pharmacy student in “People’s University of medical and health sciences for women, Shaheed Benazirabad (Nawabshah)” and is a Pharmacy Doctor in making. She is writing blogs since 2016
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Contemporary World Literature: Poetry from Indonesia
Poems by Ewith Bahar
Ewith Bahar is a poetess from Indonesia and lives in Jakarta. She had a long time career in a mass-communication field, radio and television industry. Being a TV host at Television of Republic of Indonesia (TVRI, a government TV station) for several cultural and musical programs has broadened her vision that helps much in her writing works. One of her poetry books got a prestigious prize from Indonesian National Library as The Best Five Indonesian Poetry Books 2019.
Ewith wrote novel, short stories, essay, and poetry books. Ewith Bahar also loves teaching. She was a teacher at a Communication Institution, Interstudi and LEPPKINDO, and a public speaker for communications matters, creative writing and Bibliotherapy.
Poetry and Art reveal horizons of light, says Lidia Chiarelli, an eminent artist, writer and founder of the Image & Poetry Literary Art Movement of Italy.
Lidia Chiarelli, an award winner poetess, has created a video-poem in Spanish for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day being observed on January 27.
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After graduating in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Turin, she devoted herself to teaching English, including courses in “creative writing” combined with art in his teaching methods. In collaboration with four other partners she founded Image & Poetry Literary Art Movement.
Her poems, born from the passion for creative writing, have received around a dozen important national and international literary awards since 2011.
Lidia Chiarelli’s poems have been translated into English, French; Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Norwegian,Korean, Albanian, Polish, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Filipino, Sicilian, Uzbek, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Urdu, Shona, Armenian, Icelandic, Serbian, and have been published in poetry magazines and websites in Italy, Great Britain, France, United States, Romania, Albania, South Korea, China, India, Poland, Israel, Chile, Vietnam, Japan, Uzbekistan, Mauritius, Azerbaijan and Zimbabwe.
Since 2016 she is a member of the World Poets Society. Her name is included in the Best Poems Encyclopedia. She is the official Italian biographer and translator of Aeronwy Thomas.
She was International Judge at the Poetry Competition ‘Left Dragon and Right Tiger’ Cup Competition, China in 2021. Since 2013 she has been a member of the Turin Live Festival jury for the Painting category.
She was appointed official judge for Italy for the selection of poets competing in “The Color of Saying – A Creative Writing Competition in Celebration of Dylan Thomas “, USA /UK 2014.
The literary art movement ‘Immagine & Poesia’ was founded on November 9, 2007 at the Alfa Teatro in Turin under the patronage of the English poet Aeronwy Thomas and is based on her assertion that “figurative art and poetry can lead to moments of cross creativity “.
Since the foundation year, several exhibitions have been organized in Italy and abroad where poets have found a place alongside artists. Numerous internet sites and blogs offer hundreds of contributions from artists and poets from all over the world.
Provincial education department’s monitoring team found textbooks at four private schools of Khairpur Nathan Shah
Monitoring Team lodges complaint against 2 male and 2 female Taluka Education Officers for action
By Allah Bux Khushik
Dadu: A team of Monitoring and Evaluation Cell of Sindh Education and Literacy Department found government’s free textbooks at four private schools during raids in Khairpur Nathan Shah Taluka of Dadu district.
Chief Monitoring Officer (CMO) Ms. Ghulam Fatima Ghallu conducted raids at various private schools of Khairpur Nathan Shah and found that the books published by Sindh Textbook Board for free distribution among the students of government schools were given to private schools.
Ms. Ghulam Fatima Ghallu has submitted the report in this regard to the District and Sessions Judge of Dadu and held four Taluka Education Officers (TEO) of KN Shah responsible for supplying free textbooks to the private schools.
CMO Ms. Ghallu stated in report that during her visit to Khairpur Nathan Shah’s private schools namely Ideal, Jinnah, Bhittai and Mehran School, she found Sindh Textbook Board’s free books in students’ bags and when the team inquired it was told that books were received from TEOs of Dadu.
CMO named Taluka Education Officer of KN Shah Mr. Allah Waryao Khoso, TEO Latif Ali Khoso, female TEOs Ms. Mukthiar Jatoi and Ms. Sajda as responsible for government books’ distribution in private schools.
CMO in her report requested the court for action against those responsible under the law.
District and Sessions Judge Dadu has forwarded the complaint against TEOs to Sindh Textbook Board’s chairman for legal action and cancellation of registration of concerned private schools.
It may be mentioned that under a program, Government of Sindh, since 2003, took a major initiative of distribution of free textbooks to the students of primary classes in all government schools. From 2005-6 this incentive has been vertically expended till class X.
Chotiari Dam is a neglected tourist resort of Sindh located in Sanghar district, which is deemed as a wonderland of Sindh having a unique ecosystem consisting of six natural lakes namely Akanwari, Tajar, Phuleli, Seri, Sao Naro and Baqar lake. This beautiful place rich in natural beauty is devoid of all the basic facilities.
Public Opinion
Allah Almighty has bestowed Sindh with natural beauty and lots of attractive places. Nature is beautiful and is said to have been a cure to man’s several mental and physical agonies. Besides being a source of pleasure for the people, such places, replete with natural beauty are the great source of income for the government. However, the Sindh government has neglected such places including the Chotiari Dam, situated in district Sanghar, which is deemed as a wonderland of Sindh. It has a unique ecosystem consisting of six natural lakes namely Akanwari ,Tajar, Phuleli, Seri, Sao Naro and Baqar lake.
The Chotiari Dam is the place where the people of the country in general and Sindh province in particular can visit and have pleasure by viewing natural things.
When we visited the Chotiari Dam, we found no facilities provided there so that the families could visit and enjoy the place. We found a guest house built there by the government but in neglected condition. I came across the local people living in the surrounding of the dam, who told that even they were not provided with any basic facilities. There was no road maintained, no electricity; no school for the children, no gas facility and no healthcare center available to the people. The people living there are not acquainted with modern facilities. They depend on fishing. Workshop, Mangoli and other villages are there, whose inhabitants were unaware of the basic facilities of life.
The resort is operated by Sindh Tourism Development Corporation. The guest house was established in 2017 by Sindh Culture, Tourism & Antiquities Department, under a development scheme of 2016-17 fiscal year however after completion, it was handed over to Sindh Tourism Development Corporation in 2017.
The Chotiari Dam has various tourist attraction points. Historical Makhi forest, where the Hurs had established their base against British Raj in Sindh was also situated at the bank of Baqar Lake.
It seems that the concerned department of Sindh government has abandoned promoting tourism in the province. It is the fundamental responsibility of the government to promote recreation places, which will be the natural source of pleasure for the people of Sindh as well as the foreign tourists.
The road leading to Chotiari Dam was in dilapidated condition. Sindh government must pay attention to the construction of roads leading to the dam, and also develop the resort by establishing rest houses, shops, parks and providing other basic facilities so that people could make the most of benefit from the natural place bestowed by Allah. A vast barren land was found in the surroundings of dam, where some measures should be taken for plantation so that greenery could be promoted. Migratory birds from Siberia also use to visit this area in cold weather adding the beauty to the area but the Sindh government has disregarded all these things.
If the government develops this place as tourist resort, it can bring prosperity to the people of the area. A good number of people can also be provided with jobs if the Sindh government takes an initiative to flourish the tourism in the province.
Lycho (left) standing with Anvita Abbi and holding her book of Great Andamanese creation myths – Photo: Satish Abbi, 2013
Contemporary World Literature: Poetry from Bangladesh
Poems by Masudul Hoq
Masudul Hoq (1968) has a PhD in Aesthetics from Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a contemporary Bengali poet, short story writer, translator and researcher. His published work includes short stories Tamakbari (1999), The poems Dhonimoy Palok (2000), Dhadhashil Chaya, (translated version is ‘Shadow of Illusion’) (2005) and Jonmandher Swapna, (translated version is Blind Man’s Dream) 2010, translated by Kelly J. Copeland.
Masudul Hoq also translated T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘Four Quarters’ (2012), Allen Ginsburg’s poem ‘Howl’ (2018) from English to Bengali. In the late 1990s for 3 years he worked under a research fellowship at The Bangla Academy. Bangla Academy has published his two research books. His poems have been published in Chinese, Romanian, Mandarin, Azeri, Turkish, Nepali and Spanish languages. At present he is a Professor of Philosophy in a government college, Bangladesh.
A large number of students from different schools setup the stalls of scientific models prepared by them
By GR Junejo
Mithi: The Tharparkar chapter of Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT), the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, organized a one-day Students’ Expo at Cultural Complex of Mithi on Sunday.
A large number of students from different schools setup the stalls of scientific models prepared by them. The awareness sessions, talk shows and other programs were also held for the students.
A large number of students, teachers and citizens including Hamza Muhammad Siddiqui, Asad Ali Qureshi, Mansurul Islam, Rajesh, Goyal, Arsalan Jatt, Subhan Samejo, Sahir Hemnani, Johar Lal, Bheesham Kothari and others.
Speaking at the award distribution ceremony, Rahmatullah Charo, the organizer of the event, said that the Expo was organized to provide the students an opportunity to show their talent. “The students of desert district Tharparkar are very much talented and such kind of events would be organized in future also,” he said.
The jobs were sanctioned in education, health, LG, works & services and other provincial departments 
