Three killed after thread factory in Karachi s Baldia catches fire
Pakistan
Wed, Feb 10, 2021
KARACHI: Three labourers lost their lives after a fire broke out in a thread factory in Baldia Town, Karachi Thursday.
Rescue officials say the blaze started on the third floor and then spread to the rest of the factory.
The blaze has now been extinguished. It too five hours, a snorkel and four fire brigade vehicles to do the job.
Chief fire officer Mobin Ahmed said there was no emergency exit in the factory and the windows were closed with iron bars.
The deceased were identified as Ali Sher, Mohammad Kazim and Fayyaz. Their bodies were recovered from the third floor.
‘Karachi’s Pashtuns heavily influence KP’s electoral trends and vice versa’
Karachi
February 7, 2021
A Pakistan Peoples Party’s central leader from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Nawabzada Khawaja Muhammad Khan Hoti, has said Karachi’s Pashtuns must not allow their vote bank to fall into the hands of ethnic and religious parties and collectively support the PPP to have their issues addressed.
In a recent conversation with The News in his Karachi visit, Hoti, who is also a former PPP provincial president and a federal minister, said the PPP was the only party that could be described as a symbol of the federation and was supported in the entire country by all ethnicities.
Four more people, including a senior physician, have died due to Covid-19 and 812 others have tested positive for the disease during the past 24 hours in Sindh, with the death toll due to the viral.
Karachi
February 1, 2021
The next time you drive past the mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, you are least likely to find chalking and political graffiti defiling the walls and footpaths that skirt the landmark, because a group of Karachi’s young residents charged with the passion to transform the city’s landscape cleaned them on Sunday.
Around two and a half months ago, 21-year-old DHA resident Zohaib Ahmed Khan decided to work for the beautification of the city and formed a group called ‘Rang De Karachi’. “We want to clean the roads of Karachi, install street lights and uplift the footpaths,” he said.
Top Story
January 26, 2021
KARACHI: The provincial Apex Committee meeting was told on Monday that the Anti-Terrorism Financing Unit (ATFU) has recovered Rs10.249 billion during five years from 2015 to 2020 and registered 144 cases and arrested 90 accused, of them 19 were convicted. However, the fate of critical Safe City project continues to hang in the balance as a company contracted for installing 10,000 cameras in Karachi has now been asked to give inputs about the project s feasibility and its PC 1.
While presiding over the 25th meeting of provincial Apex Committee at the CM House, the Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, said the terrorists have no ethnicity, religion, language or nationality but their inhuman proclivity with like-minded elements makes it mandatory to regularly review the threat assessment to keep our city, the province and the country secure. The meeting was attended by Corps Commander Karachi, Chief Secretary, IGP Sindh, DG Rangers, Information Minis