By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
The Pakistan Engineering
Council (PEC) has expressed profound grief and sorrow over the massive
destruction caused by inferno at the garment factory resulting in a major loss
of human lives.
The PEC Chairman, Syed Abdul
Qadir Shah, stated that the heart of every Pakistani was bleeding and every eye
was full of tears over this tragedy.
He remarked that no amount of
money can compensate for lives lost and neither the dear and near ones could come
back.
“But it is high time for every
Pakistani to pray to Allah to rest the departed souls in eternal peace and
grant fortitude to bereaved families to bear the irreparable loss. The PEC
fully stands by the grieved families on this gruesome occasion,” Abdul Qadir
Shah observed.
He said that for the future
the engineering aspects of all such premises should be thoroughly scrutinized
and no industrial unit, not fulfilling the engineering requirements, should be
permitted to establish itself.
He announced the postponement
of PEC's annual dinner which was due to be held on September 14 at the Beach
Luxury Hotel in Karachi.
Meanwhile the death toll from a garment factory at Karachi's Hub River
Road rose to 289, many of whom perished because they were unable to escape
building that lacked emergency exits and basic safety equipment such as alarms
and sprinklers.
The deadly blaze, having erupted on the night of September 11, was one
of the worst industrial accidents in Pakistan's 65-year history.
