Tag: Collapse

LISBON - Portugal's parliament is expected to reject government austerity measures on Wednesday, setting the stage for the possible collapse of the minority Socialist administration a day before a European summit. Prime Minister Jose Socrates has said he will resign if the plan is defeated. He has said its rejection would force the debt-laden country to follow Greece and Ireland and seek an international bailout, which he opposes. All opposition parties have proposed resolutions

LAHORE - Forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi smashed through the last line of defence protecting the rebel capital of Benghazi Tuesday and now appear poised to crush the revolt as hope for international intervention wanes. Fleeing refugees confirmed the fall of Adjabiya, a strategic city that rebel leaders vowed just one day earlier would mark the bulwark of the revolution's stand again Gaddafi, came in a matter of bullet strewn hours.
As nightfall approached, anxiety gripped

FAISALABAD - The signs of collapse have started appearing on the business horizons of Faisalabad while the textile industry is the worst-affected, thanks to the gas and electricity crisis. The Faisalabad Dry Port (FDP) set up in 1990 to facilitate the local exporters and promote outward export is literally fighting for its life in the 'intensive care unit' in the midst of textile crisis.
Workers and entrepreneurs usually represent two different camps and are mostly pitched

LAHORE - The Bahria Plaza is the first plaza to have crumbled after Monday's fire and Mochi Gate's residents are speculating as to the cause of its collapse. Locals speaking to Pakistan Today said the plaza collapsed because of a blast. A visit to the site of the fires revealed that Mochi Gate residents claimed that a blast was heard before the building came to the ground.
They insisted that the should of the blast was heard at 8:15 am with the building collapsing within 15

SEOUL - Military talks aimed at easing high tensions between North and South Korea broke down Wednesday when the North's delegation walked out, Seoul's defence ministry said. The two sides had been meeting for the first time since the North's deadly shelling of a South Korean island on November 23, which briefly sparked fears of war.
A ministry spokesman told AFP the delegates even failed to discuss when to meet again. "Under the current situation, we can say the talks have

SEOUL - North Korea could bring about its own collapse if it keeps pouring resources into nuclear and conventional weapons, South Korea's national security adviser said in an interview to be screened Monday. Chun Yung-Woo argued in the interview with US public broadcaster PBS that the Pyongyang regime faces so severe an economic crisis that it could collapse sooner than expected. The "energy for change is growing" and will reach "critical mass" at some point in the impoverished

BEIRUT - Lebanon's unity government looked set to collapse Wednesday after the powerful Hezbollah and its allies threatened to walk out over a UN probe into the assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri.
Health Minister Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh, whose Amal party is allied with Hezbollah, said 11 ministers would tender their resignations Wednesday afternoon unless a cabinet meeting is convened to discuss a long-running standoff over the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon

HAMILTON - Captain Misbah-ul-haq and Asad Sahfiq ground out an unbroken 128-run partnership to resurrect Pakistan's first innings and guide them to 235 for four at the close of play of the second day of the first test against New Zealand on Saturday.
Misbah built a slow and watchful 50 off 129 balls, while the 24-year-old Shafiq was on 74, his highest test score after he made 61 on debut against South Africa last November, to put Pakistan in a strong position heading into day

LAHORE - Two minors died when fire erupted at a house at Gohava Colony located in South Cantonment police precincts at about noon on Friday. Fire erupted when minors, brothers, unmonitored by an elder, tried to light a stove.
The deceased were identified as Usman Muneer (7) and Adnan Muneer (5). According to Edhi officials Usman and Adnan were in their single room house, while their four elder brothers were playing outside and their mother, Samina, and father, Muneer, had gone

BUNER: At least 14 people, including 10 women and a child, were killed and over 40 were injured when the roof of a dilapidated house collapsed in Jorre area of Buner district on Tuesday.
Per details, the roof collapsed in the morning, when villagers were present in the house to condole the death of a member of the family living in the house.
More than 50 people were in the house, of which a majority was sitting on the roof when it caved in.
The bodies and injured were

KARACHI: The police on Saturday arrested National Highway Authority (NHA) Chairman Chaudhry Altaf and two other officials after West Additional District and Sessions Judge Gulshan Ara Chandio rejected their interim arraignment.
However, former NHA chairman Major Gen (r) Farrukh Javed and the project director of the ECIL Company, Mohammad Yousaf Barakzai, who passed the architectural design of the bridge, managed to flee from the court premises. The men were appearing in court in