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Explosion took place a while ago in Paposh Nagar area of Karachi near a graveyard. Explosion took place in a car injuring many people, police told possible reason of this blast may be the faulty CNG kit installed in the car. However more investigations will follow on this.

As firstly heard the explosion spread panic in the city and people were suspecting it as a militant activity. As the Karachi city has been so far un-effected by on going militancy in the other areas of the country. We will be coming up with more info on this as its released.

Update 1: It is not fully clear that the blast was really due to CNG explosion. The injured people also include ranger personals, women and children and they have been shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital Karachi.

This strike have been announced by the all Pakistan association of CNG Dealers and is being observed in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Attock, Jehlam, Gujjar Khan and all areas adjacent to these areas. The strike will be effective from the Monday mid night to the Tuesday mid night.

Strike is being observed against the government’s decision of closing down the CNG stations for two days every week in Punjab and NWFP Region. Two more of such strikes are to be observed in different regions of Punjab including a strike on 12th Nov in Lahore Sargodha region and another on 13th Nov on Multan Bhawalpur Region.

CNG dealers added that if demands are not fulfilled in near future they will observe the strikes in entire NWFP and Punjab from 15th of Nov. Demands include no load shedding of CNG in any region of Pakistan and also the gas tariffs must not be increased further any sooner than Jan 2010.

Few days ago on Oct 23 the Hindu Kush Range observed an earthquake of 6.4 on Richter scale, as reported earlier. Now same Mountain range generating more earthquakes jolting the Pakistan and Afghanistan areas. Several of them are already felt in both Pakistan.

The last one felt was the second one in 24 hours and was of 5.0 on the Richter scale. This jolted areas of both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hindu Kush mountains are now seen some what active with earthquake stuff from few years. Going bit back into the past, in October 2005 an earthquake of 7.6 magnitude was originated from same mountain range took 74000 people to death and displaced the 3.5 million people from there homes destroying their primary shelters. These people had to stay in shelters provided collectively by government, human rights organizations and people of Pakistan for about a year and then as there homes etc were built again they were moved back to their homes.

Its strange that this time again like 2005 the month of October was chosen for the earthquakes by Hindu Kush mountains. But its great that with grace of Allah no one killed or no property damage was observed.

Hindu Kush range has been regarded as dangerous in this regard by the experts and some told that earthquakes of even more magnitudes can be originated from this range. So to cope with situation what we can do is to follow the standard guidelines and materials while building homes or any other kind of buildings so that they can easily bare the earthquake of at least 9 to 10 magnitude on Richter scale. It would be like prepare for the worst kind of strategy, which sounds good.