Tag: Fire

LAHORE - Aerial firing remained a trademark of the provincial capital during live screening of the mega semi-final of Cricket World Cup 2011 between Pakistan and India in Mohali. Citizens not only fired in excitement in successful moments but also in agony after the Pakistan's cricket team lost the match.
The craze touched its extreme on Wednesday, as the match started in Mohali and Lahoris gathered around their television screens. Many carried various weapons with them,

PESHAWAR - Friendly fire killed the 13 Pakistani soldiers whose deaths were initially blamed on Islamist militants in the Taliban-infested tribal belt on the Afghan border, a commander said Tuesday.
Security officials at first had said that 14 soldiers were killed during fighting on Monday in the Shindhand area of Khyber Agency. But northwest military commander Lieutenant General Asif Yasin Malik told reporters on Tuesday that 13 soldiers died due to mortar fire called in by the

PESHAWAR - Thirteen members of the Pakistani Frontier Corps, including a colonel, were killed in an apparent friendly fire incident in a northwestern region infested with al Qaeda and Taliban-linked militants, a top military commander said.
The deaths occurred late on Monday during an anti-militant operation by the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Khyber, an ethnic Pashtun tribal region near the Afghan border.
Lieutenant-General Asif Yasin Malik, the seniormost officer in the

DAMASCUS - Syrian forces opened fire to disperse hundreds of protesters in Deraa calling for an end to emergency laws on Monday, but demonstrators regrouped despite a heavy troop deployment, a witness said. At least 61 people have been killed in 10 days of anti-government protests in the southern city, posing the most serious challenge to President Bashar al-Assad's rule. Assad has yet to respond to the demonstrations, which have spread to the port city of Latakia and Hama, but Vice

KARACHI - More than 100 shops in Empress Market were gutted in the wee hours of Sunday, affecting 25 percent of one of Karachi's oldest markets. Most of the torched shops belonged to dry fruit sellers and household items' sellers, with the affected shopkeepers claiming that goods worth millions of rupees were lost.
More than 32 fire tenders from across the city reached the market to douse the flames, but the intensity of the blaze was such that fire fighters only managed to

KARACHI - More than 100 shops in Empress Market were gutted in the wee hours of Sunday, affecting 25 percent of one of Karachi's oldest markets. Most of the torched shops belonged to dry fruit sellers and household items' sellers, with the affected shopkeepers claiming that goods worth millions of rupees were lost.
More than 32 fire tenders from across the city reached the market to douse the flames, but the intensity of the blaze was such that fire fighters only managed to

KHOST - An Afghan child was shot and killed by international forces targeting insurgents in the restive east of the country on Wednesday, police said, triggering a NATO investigation. Coalition forces opened fire from the air on a car carrying a group of militants in eastern Khost province but accidentally struck another vehicle, killing the child, provincial police chief Abdul Hakim Esahaqaai told AFP. He said two other civilians were injured in the incident in Khost, one of the

KARACHI - Crying out loud for scarcity of funds to even purchase fuel for running power plants, the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) is bearing additional expenses by hiring private security guards and drivers, while completely disregarding its own staff employees.
Well-placed sources in the power utility told Pakistan Today that despite the two departments of transport and security being completely outsourced, the company is also paying its recently-reinstated lower-staff

GUWAHATI - At least 21 people in a refugee camp in northeastern India, mostly women and children, died on Saturday after a kitchen fire spread rapidly through huts of bamboo and plastic sheets, a police officer said. The fire destroyed one of six camps in the Kanchanpur area, about 170 km (105 miles) northeast of Tripura state's capital Agartala. The camps house over 14,000 people from the Reang or Bru tribes out of around 40,000 who fled the neighbouring state of Mizoram in October

LONDON - Actor Johnny Depp has become the target of anti-smoking campaigners, who are rallying against him over his animated movie 'Rango,' which features characters who smoke.
The movie, which has been branded a health hazard, features the voices of Depp, 47, actress Isla Fisher, 35, and actor Bill Nighy, 61. It is about a group of chameleons searching for water that has been stolen from a town called Dirt.
According to Kori Titus, CEO of non-profit organisation Breathe

ISLAMABAD/BHUBANESWAR - Pakistan and India tested their short-ranged nuclear missiles on Friday. Pakistan test fired its Surface-to-Surface (STS) Ballistic Missile Hataf-2 (Abdali) while India test fired a missile named Dhanush, meaning "archer's bow" in Sanskrit, in the morning from a naval ship in the Bay of Bengal off to the eastern Orissa state and the second missile, the Prithvi II, or Earth, blasted off soon afterwards from a testing range at Chandipur-on-Sea, 200 kilometres

NAGPUR - India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said he was looking to openers Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar to fire at the top of the order as the host nation eyes the quarter-finals. "If our openers can bat as long as possible, it will be good for us because from what we have seen, if Sachin and Sehwag get going it is difficult to stop them," Dhoni said on the eve of his Group B match against South Africa. "I am just hoping that in coming games we have slightly bigger

A fire in a Mumbai slum destroyed the one-room shack of "Slumdog Millionaire" child actress Rubina Ali, leaving her family homeless, Ali said. The fire also swept through hundreds of tenements near railway tracks where Ali continued to live even after gaining global recognition. Nobody was hurt in the fire.
Ali, who shot to international fame for her role in Danny Boyle's Oscar winning 2008 film "Slumdog Millionaire," said she lost most of her belongings including precious

LAHORE - The Pakistan Rangers and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) clashed at the Gunda Singh Border this week, Dunya News reported on Friday. Pakistan Rangers officials and Indian Border Security Force got into a heated argument at the Gunda Singh Border, leading to a free-for-all fight involving punches and slaps earlier this week. According to the Indian media, the unpleasant incident occurred when an official of the Pakistan Rangers accidentally hit the BSF personnel during a

COLOMBO - Pakistan great Wasim Akram, the last captain to beat Australia in a World Cup match, says teams need a plan and "fire in the belly" to end the side's long run of success at the World Cup.
Australia, who play Group A rivals Sri Lanka on Saturday, have not lost a match at the showpiece tournament since going down to Pakistan at Leeds in 1999, and have stretched their unbeaten run to 31 matches. The have won their past 25 World Cup matches since the tied semi-final against

KARACHI - Usman Riaz's first video 'Fire Fly' from his debut album 'Flashes and Sparks' would be released nationwide on February 28, a press release said. Seldom seen in today's cookie-cutter world of commercial pop, Riaz's debut album, a three-tracked offering, has indeed upped the ante for budding musicians.
Terms such as eclectic, electrifying, clean, incisive, fall by the wayside, incapable of expressing the depth and maturity of the young musician's work. Wielding a modified

LAHORE - Fire erupted at Punjabi Complex at the Qaddafi Stadium late on Wednesday. Administration office of the complex engulfed in fire, which erupted owing to short circuiting in a generator installed there. Room furniture and five computers worth thousands of rupees were burnt. The security guard called the Rescue 1122 which later extinguished fire. Fire claimed no life neither an injury was reported. Punjabi Complex is a research center, an auditorium and an art gallery.