Tag: Fire

In retaliation to the humiliation caused to Federal Finance Minister Senator Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh during the budget session during which bangles and rotis...

Pakistani and Indian troops exchanged sustained cross-border fire on Sunday, security officials said, a day after an Indian soldier was allegedly killed by Pakistani...

A gas pipeline of sixteen inch diameter blew up in wee hours of Friday, in district Kashmor, suspending gas supply to various areas of...

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt says that he was waiting for the managers report before taking any action against Shahid Afridi in his...

Security forces opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in Yemen’s second largest city Taez on Thursday, wounding dozens, witnesses and medics said. Central Security forces...

Unidentified armed men on Wednesday set ablaze two Nato containers in the Guncha Dhori area of Mastung, police said. Police official told that two containers carrying...

The City District Government Lahore (CDGL) failed to celebrate Fire Brigade Day with pomp and splendour as directed by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif,...

Unknown miscreants set more than eleven cars including passenger buses on fire in various areas of Karachi. All the markets are closed and all...

At least 25 acres standing wheat crop was burnt to ashes in village Pindiwal the other day. Reportedly, a tractor driver threw a burning...

HYDERABAD - Paul Valthaty and Adam Gilchrist hammered explosive half-centuries to power Kings XI Punjab to an eight-wicket win over Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League on Saturday.
Valthaty smashed a 47-ball 75 and skipper Gilchrist a 46-ball 61 as Punjab achieved a 166-run target with 14 balls to spare for their second win in three matches in the Twenty20 tournament. Former Australian wicketkeeper Gilchrist and Valthaty both completed half-centuries with a six and added

KARACHI - Following the killings of two activist of MQM, the city, again, fell prey to unrest as unknown miscreants set two buses on fire in Landhi area on Tuesday.
According to sources, armed men forcefully vacated a passenger bus and set it on fire near Manzil pump in Sherpao Colony of Landhi.
Likewise, unknown miscreants set another bus on fire at Quaidabad poultry stop.
Police and fire brigade authorities managed to control the fire but vehicles were completely

LAHORE - Two labourers Saleem and Asif died while another Asif sustained injuries from a fire which erupted in a foam godown when firework sparks from a marriage ceremony fell in the godown located in Shahdara late on Saturday night.
Javed was running a small unit in a two-story building in Qureshi Mohalla in Jiya Mosa where the labourer used to prepare foam.
Two houses away, Shahzad's mehndi was being held. Police said that Shahzad's friends and family members fired

KARACHI - At least 150 makeshift huts were reduced to ashes when an 'accidental' fire broke out in the Korangi No 2

AMMAN - Syrian security forces opened fire on mourners near a mosque in the flashpoint city of Deraa after a mass funeral for pro-democracy protesters, two witnesses said on Saturday.
Security forces used live ammunition and tear gas to disperse thousands of people who were chanting freedom slogans after assembling near the old Omari mosque in the old quarter of the city, near the border with Jordan, the witnesses said. Dozens of people have been killed in a wave of protests

GAZA CITY - A Gazan man was killed by Israeli fire in northern Gaza on Tuesday, medical sources said, as Palestinian factions met to discuss tensions with Israel along the border. "A Palestinian was killed by an Israeli tank shell near Erez," Adham Abu Selmiya told AFP, identifying him as 21-year-old Mohammed Ziyad Shalha.
Earlier, witnesses reported seeing Israeli troops firing at two men in the same area who were said to be collecting gravel, in what was understood to be the

GAZA CITY - A Gazan man was killed by Israeli fire in northern Gaza on Tuesday, medical sources said, as Palestinian factions met to discuss tensions with Israel along the border.
"A Palestinian was killed by an Israeli tank shell near Erez," said Adham Abu Selmiya, identifying him as 21-year-old Mohammed Ziyad Shalha.
Earlier, witnesses reported seeing Israeli troops firing at two men in the same area who were said to be collecting gravel, in what was understood to be the

SANAA - Security forces and armed men in civilian clothes opened fire during protests in the Yemeni city of Taiz, south of the capital, on Tuesday, a day after clashes there killed 15 people, witnesses said.
Witnesses told that several people had been hurt, but there was no word yet from medical sources on casualties.
They said hundreds of security troops attacked tens of thousands of protesters, and said men they believed were plainclothes police were wielding bats and