Zardari Orders Probe as Pakistan Factory Fire Kills 258
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Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari ordered an investigation after a fire in a garment factory in the commercial capital of Karachi left 258 people dead in the country’s biggest industrial accident.
The owners of Ali Enterprises, which exports garments, have been barred from leaving the country, Ishrat-ul-Ibad, governor of Sindh Province, told reporters at the site. Police conducted raids across the city to locate the owners, ARY Television reported.