WORKERS KILLED IN PAKISTAN FACTORY COLLAPSE: A factory that manufactured shopping bags collapsed in Lahore Wednesday, killing at least 18 and trapping 150, Reuters Asad Hashim reports. Shoddy construction and poor labor standards have dogged the countrys workers for years: In September 2012, 289
Al Jazeera's Asad Hashim in Karachi said he could not access the site from his mobile phone, but was still able to see tweets posted earlier in the day. He said it appeared that the ban had therefore come into effect sometime about 8:00GMT (1pm local time).
"Security has been tightened across the city, in line with existing plans to do so for the anniversary, but also in response to the terror threats that US intelligence officials had earlier identified," said Al Jazeera's Asad Hashim, reporting from New York.
"The NYPD has set up checkpoints on the roads in many locations, and there are also random inspections taking place in the subway system, with bag checks set up at major stations," Al Jazeera's Asad Hashim reported from the city's financial district.
Asad Hashim - I have a cunning plan. - Journalist, sometimes anthropologist. - Al Jazeera - Dawn (newspaper) - Geo TV - The Friday Times.
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Asad Hashim
Work:
Al Jazeera - Online Producer (2010) Dawn (newspaper) - Reporter/sub-editor (2008-2010) Geo TV - Correspondent/Copy Editor (2007-2008) The Friday Times - Features Editor (2007)
Education:
School of Oriental and African Studies - Anthropology of Media, Georgia Institute of Technology - Electrical Engineering