One of Karachi’s most famous forensic medicine experts Dr Farhat Mirza perished in a fire that broke out in his house in Mohammad Ali Housing Society in the middle of Wednesday night a death that could have been averted had a fire tender reached in time. Investigations by SAMAA Digital reveal that a fire tender could not be dispatched from the closest fire station because it was shut. Its sole person on duty, a driver, had gone home.Along with Prof. Farhat Mirza, a retired judge and a retired higher secondary school teacher also died in the blaze. The house, No 19-D in Sector D of MAHS, is located off Karachi main artery, Sharah-e Faisal. Records from the Central Fire Brigade office te.
A woman from Gujjar nullah who lost her home, Mehreen Maria, shared what it feels like to be forcefully evicted from your own house. “We are in a constant state of mental and physical stress,” she said, “We are victims to the state’s terrorism.” She appealed to the authorities directly by stating their titles, including the Chief Justice of Pakistan. People will forget the torture in Kashmir and Palestine if they see our condition, she said. The Joint Action Committee held a press conference on Tuesday, June 1 at the Karachi Press Club. They spoke in favour of the people evicted and asked the government to stop instantly. The evictees live along the banks of Karachi’s main nul.
RESIDENTS of Paposh Nagar locality in Nazimabad take to the streets to protest hours-long power breakdown on Saturday amid sizzling weather conditions. PPI
KARACHI: Karachiites had a miserable day on Saturday when most of the city was left with no electricity due to the tripping of a high-tension transmission line a little after noon.
The K-Electric said that its 220kV high-tension circuit was affected by the tripping in National Transmission and Despatch Company’s NKI-Baldia 1 and 2, supplying electricity to Karachi.
The federal ministry of energy confirmed that the supply of electricity to Karachi was affected because of the tripping in Northern-Karachi Interconnections transmission lines Baldia 1 and 2 and the NTDC and the city’s power utility were busy restoring the supply. No causes of the tripping were, however, mentioned by the authorities.