Arson Attack

KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court heard Tahir Plaza arson case on Tuesday. Police produced arrested accused Irfan alias Saeed in the court. MQM's Hammad Siddiqui, Saeed Bharam and others have also been nominated in the arson attack incident. In police report accused Irfan alias Saeed has confessed that Hammad Siddiqui and Saeed Bharam had ordered the arson attack in Tahir Plaza. The arson attack made to 'teach a lesson' to lawyers for supporting the deposed chief justice. According to police, two accomplices of…

LAHORE: Director General of Punjab Forensic Science Agency, Dr Ashraf Tahir has said that Baldia factory fire was an arson attack. According to ARY News Dr. Tahir in a press conference on Thursday said that the government has been informed that the Baldia factory fire was a clear case of arson and not an accidental blaze. Dr Tahir elaborating his words said, "In arson, an accelerant like kerosene oil or petrol is used to start a fire. He said finding traces of an accelerant has proved that the fire was started on…

BEIJING: Fourteen people were burned to death and 32 injured after a public bus went up in flames in a suspected arson attack in China on Tuesday, state media said.

FARIDABAD, India: Two toddlers belonging to minority Dalit community were killed after a mob allegedly burnt their house in a village in India's Haryana state in the late hours of Monday.

STOCKHOLM: More than a thousand protesters took to the streets in Sweden on Friday to urge an end to a spate of attacks against mosques, amid growing tensions over the rise of an anti-immigration party.

JERUSALEM: An arson attack targeting first-grade classrooms at a Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem sparked a wave of condemnation Sunday as months of racial tensions in the city showed little sign of abating.