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 worked throughout the day and night to take out victims from underneath 10,000 … maunds of concrete… .

[Meanwhile, as reported from Rawalpindi,] Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto has warned that Pakistan’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”.

Published in Dawn, September 14th, 2026