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Khi factory fire: Sindh industry minister resigns

KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Industries and Commerce, Abdul Rauf Siddiqui, has stepped down in the wake of country’s worst industrial disaster, which unfolded in a garments factory here, Geo News...

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September 14, 2012

Khi factory fire: Sindh industry minister resigns
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Industries and Commerce, Abdul Rauf Siddiqui, has stepped down in the wake of country’s worst industrial disaster, which unfolded in a garments factory here, Geo News reported.

According to sources, the resignation of Muttahida Qaumi Movement's Rauf Siddiqui has been sent to Governor Sindh, Dr Isharat-ul-Ibad.

Over 250 people were killed in the ill-fated fire which gutted a garment factory in Baldia Town on Tuesday.
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