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Factories in Pakistan 's two largest cities of Karachi and Lahore caught fire on 11 September 2012. The fires occurred in a textile factory in the western part of Karachi and in a shoe factory in Lahore. The fires are considered to be the most deadly and worst industrial factory fires in Pakistan's history, [3] killing 289 people and seriously ...
Casualties. 117–124 dead [1][2] 200+ injured. The 2012 Dhaka garment factory fire broke out on 24 November 2012, in the Tazreen Fashion factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. [3] At least 117 people were confirmed dead in the fire, and over 200 were injured, [1] making it the deadliest factory fire in the ...
February 23 – A remote control car blast in Peshawar killed at least 12 people and injured 32 people. [23] February 24 – Three suicide bombers attacked a police checkpost in Peshawar, killing four policemen and injuring six. The attack was a reaction to the killing of a top Taliban commander in Waziristan.
December. On 22 December, Bashir Ahmad Bilour was leaving after attending a meeting of ANP workers at a private residence in Peshawar, when he was attacked and critically injured by a suicide bomber at 6:15 PM. He was rushed to Lady Reading Hospital where he died at 7:40 PM. His secretary Noor Muhammad was also killed in the blast.
Parveen lives in Karampur with eight family members. She joined the rescue services in 2010 when the fire department announced its first women department. She joined the program along with 600 other people. She was trained at Rescue 1122 in Lahore and was the only woman who completed the training. According to Parveen, she chose the profession by choice and had the support of her late father ...
2012 Pakistan factory fires; 2012 Pakistan floods; G. 2012 Gayari Sector avalanche This page was last edited on 22 November 2022, at 11:51 (UTC). Text is available ...
— Malala Yousafzai, 24 January 2009 BBC blog entry In February 2009, girls' schools were still closed. In solidarity, private schools for boys had decided not to open until 9 February, and notices appeared saying so. On 7 February, Yousafzai and her brother returned to their hometown of Mingora, where the streets were deserted, and there was an "eerie silence". She wrote in her blog: "We ...
The Pakistani women of today do, however, enjoy a better status than in the past. [47] [48] Pakistan has a dual system of civil and sharia law. The Constitution of Pakistan recognizes equality between men and women (Art. 25(2) states "There shall be no discrimination on the basis of sex") but also recognizes as valid Sharia law (Chapter 3A.