[Temperatures reaching 113
degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius) began in Karachi Pakistan
KARACHI , Pakistan
The official, Saaed Mangnejo, said most of the deaths were
reported in the province’s largest city, Karachi
Temperatures reaching 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees
Celsius) began in Karachi Pakistan
The power failures also affected the sporadic water supply in
the city, where those who can afford it rely on home deliveries of water tanker
trucks filled with water.
Most
of the dead are older Pakistanis, said Seemi Jamali, a doctor an the
spokeswoman for Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Center Karachi
Many people arrive at the
hospital staring blankly or unconscious. Some faint while others lie on public
benches and crowd corridors in wheelchairs and stretchers. Panicked families
have fought with hospital staff members to admit their loved ones.
“We’re dying and we’re being
told to wait,” said Moazzam Ali, as two women comforted his badly dehydrated
mother, who was waiting for medical care.
Qaim Ali Shah, the province’s
chief minister, ordered schools and public offices closed Tuesday until the
heat wave ended. He faulted the Pakistani federal government for the deaths,
saying it did not respond to his appeals to fix the power grid. Abid Sher Ali,
a junior minister for water and power for the federal government, said it was
the Karachi
A meteorologist, Abdur Rauf, called the heat wave the worst in
at least a decade in Pakistan
CHINA BLOCKS INDIA'S MOVESEEKING ACTION AGAINST PAKISTAN ON MUMBAI ATTACK MASTERMIND LAKHVI
[Lakhvi, 55, a close relative of LeT founder and Jamaat-Ud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, was arrested in December 2008 and was indicted along with the six others on November 25, 2009 in connection with the 26/11 attack case. The trial has been underway since 2009.]
By PTI
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Chinese representatives blocked the move
on grounds that
not
provide sufficient information, official sources |
As the UN Sanctions Committee met here at India's request, a clarification was to be sought from Pakistan over Lakhvi's release in the 26/11 trial but the Chinese representatives blocked the move on grounds that India did not provide sufficient information, official sources said.
In a letter to the current Chair of the UN Sanctions Committee Jim McLay, India's Permanent Representative to the UN Asoke Mukherjee last month had said Lakhvi's release by a Pakistani court was in violation of the 1267 UN resolution dealing with designated entities and individuals.
The sanctions measures apply to designated individuals and entities associated with terror groups including al-Qaeda and LeT, wherever located.
The sanctions' committee has five permanent and 10 non-permanent UN member states in it.
The release of Lakhvi had also raised concerns in the US, UK, Russia, France and Germany with Washington calling for him to be re-arrested.
Lakhvi and six others - Abdul Wajid, Mazhar Iqbal, Hamad Amin Sadiq, Shahid Jameel Riaz, Jamil Ahmed and Younis Anjum - have been charged with planning and executing the Mumbai attack in November, 2008 that left 166 people dead.
Lakhvi, 55, a close relative of LeT founder and Jamaat-Ud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, was arrested in December 2008 and was indicted along with the six others on November 25, 2009 in connection with the 26/11 attack case. The trial has been underway since 2009.
A Pakistani court had on April 9 set free Lakhvi, a development which India said "eroded" the value of assurances repeatedly conveyed to it by Pakistan on cross-border terrorism.
