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A Pakistani villager tends to her sick child at a government hospital in the famine-affected Tharparkar district, some 300 kilometres from Karachi on March 13, 2014. The death toll from diseases such as pneumonia and meningitis since December 1 had risen to 161 people, including 97 children in a district of southern Pakistan. The desert lies in Tharparkar, one of Pakistan's poorest districts spread over nearly 20,000 square kilometres in the country's southeast and home to some 1.3 million people, including a large population of minority Hindus. AFP PHOTO/Yousuf NAGORI

What Thar lacks more than water is a contingency plan

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