Here are the headlines from SAMAA TV’s 9am bulletin.
- A five-storey building collapsed in Lyari’s Khadda Market Sunday night. A woman’s body has been retrieved from under the rubble and five people have been injured. The Pakistan Army Engineering Corps has reached the scene. The rescue operation is still underway. Trained dogs are being used to search for people stuck beneath the rubble. Fifty people are feared to be stuck under the debris.
- Another nearby five-storey building began to shake shortly after the building collapse in Karachi’s Lyari. Fear spread in the area and the building was evacuated. Law enforcement agencies have sealed the area.
- A legal reference will be sent to NAB on all the subsidies granted in the last 25 years. The Rs29 billion sugar subsidies will be sent to NAB, the premier’s special assistant, Shahzad Akbar, announced on Sunday. Fraud, benami transactions, sales tax fraud, creating cartels, fake recoveries and writing of loans will all be investigated. Money laundering matters will be sent to the provincial anti-corruption agencies.
- Karachi will have to endure four to five days of warm weather and humidity, according to the Met department. Preparations to face natural disasters are underway in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Rescue 1122 has begun exercises in the Kabul River.
- A special birthday was celebrated at Peshawar’s Hayatabad Medical Complex. A 71-year-old patient in the hospital’s isolation ward, Asad Naveed, cut a cake on his birthday. All the staff on duty celebrated with him.
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