Tag: Collapse

The case against former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was charged with sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper, is near collapse, the New...

At least three persons were killed while 11 others were injured when a roof of a workshop collapsed here on Wednesday. According to rescue...

Around 549 dilapidated buildings are live death traps for hundreds of people living in them and most of the structures are so shabby to...

England could find themselves playing two extra Twenty20 internationals against the West Indies at the end of their current season in a bid to...

Three family members died and two were injured when roof top caved in Nowshera on Thursday. As per details, the unpleasant incident took place...

Students enrolled in the four-year BS (Hons) programme in 26 colleges of the province are abandoning the programme and opting for the two-year BA...

OPEC talks broke down in acrimony on Wednesday without an agreement to raise oil output after Saudi Arabia failed to convince the cartel to...

A congressional investigation has warned that the expensive US attempt at nation-building in Afghanistan may not survive and collapse after the US withdrawal, reports...

As many commentators have rightly observed, the euro experiment is at a crossroads. Either the eurozone will deepen into a fiscal union, or the...

The reported torture of a Syrian boy shows the "total collapse" of Syrian authorities' willingness to listen to anti-government protesters, U.S. Secretary of State...

With the advent of the summer season, the water supply system in Daska and Sambrial cities is once again showing symptoms of collapse, while...

Revealing the gravity of the differences between Pakistan and the United States, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has disclosed that cooperation between the Inter-Services...

ISLAMABAD - Persistent gas shortages and unilateral decision of gas utility companies to curtail feedstock gas supplies to urea plants, for a fortnight per month, have brought fertiliser industry on the verge of collapse.
The perturbed chief executives of fertiliser industry presented this horrific scenario at a meeting chaired by the Minister for Industries Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani.
They said that the shutdown of gas supplies for 15 days every month would completely damage

LAHORE - Three people, including a couple, died and 13 others, including nine children, were injured in separate incidents of roof collapse on Tuesday. In the first mishap, a man and his wife died while their seven children, including two girls, were injured when the roof of their single-story house collapsed. The deceased were identified as 40-year-old Muhabbat Khan and his wife Gul-e-Hayat while their injured children were identified as Mujahid Khan, 14, Aasia, 9, Shahid, 8, Laiba,

QUETTA - At least seven people, including a woman and children, were wounded in Dera Allayar area of Jaffarabad district when a boundary wall of a house collapsed owing to a heavy downpour on Saturday.
Reportedly, torrential rains hit different parts of Jaffarabad including Dera Allayar area where the boundary wall of a house located at Gott Muhalla Bhutti fell down causing injuries to seven people including a woman and children.
The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital

HAFIZABAD - At least 30 people were injured when the roof of a banquet hall collapsed in Chack Dewan Singh near Hafizabad. Reportedly, a marriage party of the daughter of Muhammad Bashir, a resident of Chak Dewan Singh, came from Nowshera Virkan. The marriage party was sitting in the hall when its roof collapsed. As a result, more then 30 members of the marriage party, including Aalimgir, Imran, Manzoor, Neelam, Shahida, Parveen, Muhammad Jameel, Muhammad Umar, Muhammad Hanif, Ashiq,

ATTOCK - Three girls were killed when the roof of their house caved.
The incident took place in Pandi Gheb tehsil of Attock district at the house of Hafiz Hussain Ahmed when three girls were inside the roof when its roof collapsed due to breakage of its wooden beams.
All the girls, identified as Nadia, Samina and Sidra, died on the spot.