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• Says lack of fire safety measures, disconnection of electricity and blocking of exits caused fatalities • Forensic investigation can determine exact origin of fire, commission told KARACHI: Chief Fire Officer Muhammad Humayun Khan has blamed the Gul Plaza administration for the loss of life due to lack of implementation of fire safety protocols, failure to make a prompt announcement about the fire, blocked emergency exits and disconnection of electricity without evacuating people trapped inside. He said this in response to a questionnaire from the single-judge commission, headed by Justice Agha Faisal of the Sindh High Court. In his reply / statement, Mr Khan submitted that information about Jan 17 Gul Plaza fire was received at the central fire station at 10:26pm, first fire tender was dispatched at 10:27pm and it was arrived at the site in around 10 minutes. He maintained that the one-minute response time was consistent with internationally recognised performance benchmarks while travel time was influence...

KARACHI: Petroleum dealers have threatened to stop petrol and diesel sales after Eidul Fitr, in case the government does not revise their profit margins. Addressing a news conference at the Karachi Press Club on Friday, the leadership of Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association (PPDA) gave the government until March 26 to revise petroleum dealers’ margin from 2.59 per cent to 8pc in the wake of a Rs55 per litre hike in diesel and petrol rates. Currently, the dealers’ margin comes to around Rs8.64 per litre on diesel and petrol. The PPDA leaders, including Abdul Sami Khan, Tariq Hasan and Ameer Khan Masood, said the petroleum levy and hike in petroleum prices have severely affected dealers as well as consumers. They blamed oil-marketing companies (OMCs) for capping oil supplies. As a result, retail outlets are facing problems in obtaining the required quantity of oil products, drying up many pumps. They said the petroleum dealers have been urging the government for the last two years to raise their profit margin...

В ночь на 14 марта российские войска нанесли комбинированный удар по Украине, применив крылатые ракеты типа "Калибр", гиперзвуковые ракеты "Кинжал", другое баллистическое вооружение, а также ударные БПЛА типа "Шахед".

A Cambridge study spanning 11 years and 68 verified cable failures found that Bitcoin's physical infrastructure is far more resilient than previously understood, with TOR adoption actually strengthening the network.

Netanyahu continues to urge Herzog to grant him a presidential pardon over his ongoing criminal cases, as Herzog discouraged Trump's remarks as a 'blatant attack' on Israel's sovereignty and governance

RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Meteoro­lo­gical Department (PMD) has forecast another spell of rain in the northern parts of the country, making it a wet weekend from Saturday night to Monday morning, while the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has asked provincial and district authorities to make necessary arrangements. The department has predicted that a westerly wave was likely to approach the northwestern parts of the country on the evening of March 14 and likely to persist until the morning of March 16. Under the influence of this weather system, partly cloudy to cloudy weather conditions with chances of moderate rain, wind and thunderstorms, along with snowfall over high mountains (with isolated hailstorms), are expected in the districts of Chitral, Dir, Swat, Kohistan, Shangla, Battgram, Buner, Malakand, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Haripur, Khyber, Mohmand, Peshawar, Bannu, Swabi, Mardan, Charsadda, Nowshera, Bajaur, Orakzai, Kurram, Kohat, Hangu, D.I. Khan, Zhob, Barkhan, Chaman, Ziarat, Gilgit-Baltis...

• Court orders prompt handover of bodies to Iranian embassy following autopsies in Galle • Chartered flight transports sealed boxes from Mattala airport to Iran • Colombo still holds over 250 crewmen from second ship; faces Washington’s pressure to halt repatriation COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Friday repatriated the remains of 84 Iranian sailors killed when their warship was sunk by a US submarine nine days earlier, an attack that extended the raging Middle East conflict to the Indian Ocean, officials said. The seamen were killed when the frigate IRIS Dena was torpedoed on March 4 just off Sri Lanka’s coast. The incident occurred while the vessel was returning from a naval exercise in India amid a wider US-Israeli war on Iran. An Iranian-chartered Airbus A340 transported the bodies from Mattala International Airport in the island’s south, according to an airport official who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media. The flight’s destination was not disclosed. “The departure was delaye...

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations refugee agency has said that between 600,000 and one million Iranian households have been temporarily displaced inside Iran as a result of US-Israeli war against the country. The UNHCR’s preliminary assessments represent displacement of up to 3.2 million people, and this figure is likely to continue rising as US-Israeli bombing persists, marking a worrying escalation in humanitarian needs, according to Ayaki Ito, UNHCR Director of Emergency and Programme Support and Cross-Regional Refugee Response Coordinator for the Middle East Emergency. Most of the displaced persons are reportedly fleeing from Tehran and other major urban areas towards the north of the country and rural areas to seek safety. Also affected are Afghan refugee families, who are particularly vulnerable, given their already precarious situation and limited support networks. Families are leaving affected areas amid rising insecurity and limited access to essential services, the UN agency said. With its longstanding ...

ISLAMABAD: Warning the federal government against what it described as “criminal negligence” in former prime minister Imr­an Khan’s medical care, the PTI has hinted at lau­n­ching a massive movement for his release after Eid. At a press conference on Friday, PTI leaders reiterated their demand for Mr Khan’s immediate transfer to Shifa International Hospital, saying that any further delay could have serious consequences. They said the party had made every possible effort to secure appropriate medical care for the PTI founder, but the government had repeatedly rejected these requests. Flanked by senior party leaders, Khyber Pakh­tunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi warned that the party would not tolerate such behaviour, adding that the PTI was fully prepared to launch a massive movement for its founder’s release. He reminded the PML-N-led ruling coalition in the Centre that his party had “temporarily slowed its political activities out of respect for the holy month of Ramazan”. He declared that the party’s pre...

Beirut residents reported hearing loud explosions in quick succession before noticing leaflets drifting over the city; some included QR codes to contact IDF Intelligence Unit 504, with the Lebanese Army said may put civilians at risk of personal data breaches

В ночь на 14 марта российские оккупанты наносят удары по Украине, применяя ударные дроны типа "Шахед", а также баллистическое вооружение.

Pe 2 martie, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, președintele Emiratelor Arabe Unite, a străbătut coridoarele Dubai Mall, întâmpinând cumpărătorii cu calmul unui lider determinat să proiecteze normalitate, relatează NYT.

В ночь на 14 марта ударные беспилотники атаковали Афипский нефтеперерабатывающий завод в Краснодарском крае России.

Stanley Druckenmiller said stablecoins are more efficient, faster and cheaper than fiat running on traditional banking infrastructure. Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller said blockchain and stablecoins may only be a decade away from powering the global payments system — though he isn’t sold on the idea of crypto functioning as a store of value. In an interview with Morgan Stanley recorded on Jan. 30 and released on Friday, the former hedge fund manager said blockchain-based tokens — particularly stablecoins — boost productivity in the payments space: "Blockchain and the use of stablecoins, if you want to throw crypto into that, tokens, incredibly useful in terms of productivity," Druckenmiller said. Read more

Donald Trump heeft bekendgemaakt dat de directievoorzitter van het cultureel centrum Kennedy Center in Washington wordt vervangen. Op zijn eigen platform Truth Social meldde Trump dat zijn vertrouweling Richard Grenell vertrekt. Hij wordt opgevolgd door Matt Floca, de huidige vicepresident voor facilitaire zaken van het centrum. Volg alle ontwikkelingen in ons liveblog.

Bitcoin showed remarkable strength throughout the week, but BTC’s correlation to tech stocks and its reactive spot ETF flows suggest the bear market isn’t over yet. Key takeaways: Bitcoin sits above $71,000 as weak US economic data and the US and Israel-Iran war drive investors toward scarce assets. Tech stocks’ correlation to BTC and rising oil prices suggest that the 5-month correction from $126,000 might not be over. Read more

If the Iran war turns into a failure, Israel may turn from America's ally to its alibi. That would keep the MAGA coalition intact, bridging the gap between hawks and Tucker Carlson-type conspiracists – but the consequences for U.S. Jews could be severe

KARACHI: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) raised on Friday an urgent national alarm over the severe and persistent shortage of essential paediatric tuberculosis (TB) medications, warning that the situation could lead to a “catastrophic surge” in drug-resistant tuberculosis in the most vulnerable population. Citing reports from healthcare facilities across the country, the association stated that they indicate “a near-total depletion” of first-line paediatric TB drugs, signalling a complete breakdown in the mandate of National TB Programme (NTP) in ensuring the availability of life-saving treatment. “As the country with the fifth-highest TB burden globally, Pakistan stands on the precipice of a man-made disaster. The systematic collapse of TB control programme is not merely an administrative issue. It’s a staggering failure of the programme and a medical emergency, threatening the lives of our children,” stated the association. Highlighting the adverse effects of persistent shortage of TB medicines, the ...

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