EIGHTY dead and 48 injured persons were recovered till midnight last night from the debris of six-storey Bismillah Building in the thickly-populated ... area of Musa Lane (Lyari) which collapsed at 4-10 a.m. yesterday [Sept 13]. The dead and injured also included 10 inmates of an adjoining single-storey house which crashed under the weight of a portion of the ill-fated building. The tragedy, worst in Karachi’s history, happened when people were having their ... ‘Sehri’. Rescue teams worl(ed throughout the day and night to take out victims from underneath 10,000 .
maunds of concrete... . Staff reporter [Meanwhile, as reported from Rawalpindi,] Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto has warned that Pal(istan’s relations with the West will deteriorate if Pakistan is denied access to nuclear technology. In an interview with [the] ... ‘The Spectator’, London, the [PM] also re-asserted his call for a conference of Third World leaders to devise a strategy for a ... fairer world economic order a proposal described by Mrs Thatcher (Britain’s Conservative Party leader) during her visit to Pakistan as a ‘very significant statement’