Due to the devastating epidemic of famine, dozens of children have died from malnutrition and other illnesses in Pakistan's southern region of Thar this year, prompting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to travel to the drought-stricken area to allocate $10 million in emergency aid.The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said 18 children under the age of five had died in January and another 23 in February.