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El número de muertos por el incendio en un centro comercial de Karachi aumentó a 23: se teme que haya más víctimas

La cifra de víctimas mortales por el incendio que arrasó el centro comercial Gul Plaza, en Karachi, la ciudad más poblada de Pakistán, aumentó a 23, según confirmaron este lunes fuentes policiales, mientras continúan las tareas de búsqueda entre los restos del edificio, gravemente dañado tras casi un día entero de llamas. Las autoridades advierten que el balance podría seguir creciendo a medida que los equipos de rescate accedan a zonas aún inaccesibles.
El incendio se desató la noche del sábado en el centro comercial de tres plantas con alrededor de 1.200 tiendas, dedicado principalmente a la venta de ropa, cosméticos y productos plásticos. Las llamas se propagaron con rapidez y no pudieron ser completamente controladas hasta casi 24 horas después, lo que retrasó el ingreso de los rescatistas a los niveles más afectados.
El jefe de la policía de la ciudad, Syed Asad Raza, informó a The Associated Press que hasta el lunes se habían recuperado 23 cuerpos, aunque solo seis pudieron ser identificados. El resto de las víctimas se encuentran en estado irreconocible, por lo que será necesario recurrir a pruebas de ADN para establecer su identidad. La doctora Summaiya Syed, cirujana de la policía, indicó que los equipos forenses ya comenzaron a recolectar muestras genéticas de los familiares de las personas desaparecidas.
Las cifras sobre desaparecidos varían según la fuente oficial. Mientras la policía de Karachi señaló que al menos 46 personas seguían sin ser localizadas, los servicios de rescate citados por AFP elevaron ese número hasta unos 60 desaparecidos. Ambas fuentes coinciden en que el recuento definitivo solo podrá establecerse una vez concluyan las operaciones de búsqueda, que continuaban este lunes entre escombros inestables y zonas parcialmente colapsadas.
En paralelo, medios locales paquistaníes informaron que el número de fallecidos podría ascender a 26, aunque esa cifra no ha sido confirmada oficialmente por la policía ni por los equipos de emergencia. Las autoridades insistieron en que solo los cuerpos recuperados y registrados formalmente integran el balance oficial por el momento.
El incendio dejó además una treintena de heridos, varios de ellos con quemaduras y lesiones por inhalación de humo, que debieron ser hospitalizados. Entre las víctimas fatales se encuentra un bombero, según confirmó el jefe del gobierno provincial de Sindh, Murad Ali Shah, quien anunció una compensación de 10 millones de rupias (unos 36.000 dólares) para la familia de cada fallecido.
Durante la noche del domingo y la madrugada del lunes, los rescatistas continuaron trabajando para alcanzar sectores del edificio donde, según los reportes, algunas personas quedaron atrapadas tras perder contacto con sus familiares. El alcalde de Karachi, Murtaza Wahab, aseguró que la operación de rescate “continuará hasta que todas las personas desaparecidas sean localizadas”.
A las puertas del centro comercial, decenas de familiares aguardaban noticias. Qaiser Ali relató que su esposa, su nuera y su hermana habían ido de compras el sábado para una boda y se encontraban dentro del edificio cuando comenzó el incendio. “Hablé con ellas por teléfono el domingo, pero después dejaron de responder”, dijo a AP. “No sé qué les ha pasado ni si siguen vivas”.
Otro sobreviviente, Saifur Rehman, contó que logró escapar cuando el fuego se expandía por los pisos inferiores, pero su hermano Mohammad Abrar, propietario de una tienda en el centro comercial, quedó atrapado. “Salí con vida, pero temo lo peor por mi hermano”, afirmó.
Las causas del incendio aún no han sido determinadas. La policía informó que se abrió una investigación para establecer el origen del fuego y evaluar posibles responsabilidades, incluidas eventuales fallas en las medidas de seguridad del edificio.
El siniestro volvió a poner en evidencia los problemas estructurales de seguridad en Karachi, una megalópolis de más de 20 millones de habitantes, donde los incendios mortales son recurrentes. Las autoridades y expertos suelen atribuir estos episodios a infraestructuras deficientes, sistemas eléctricos precarios y construcciones ilegales, especialmente en mercados y centros comerciales densamente poblados.
En noviembre de 2023, un incendio en otro centro comercial de la ciudad dejó 10 muertos y 22 heridos. El antecedente más grave se remonta a 2012, cuando un incendio en una fábrica textil de Karachi causó la muerte de 260 personas, una de las peores tragedias industriales en la historia del país. Aquella catástrofe expuso la ausencia de salidas de emergencia, alarmas y controles básicos, problemas que, más de una década después, siguen marcando la realidad urbana de la ciudad.
Mientras avanzan las tareas de rescate en el Gul Plaza, la prioridad de las autoridades es localizar a los desaparecidos y esclarecer el origen del incendio, en un contexto donde el aumento del número de víctimas vuelve a poner bajo escrutinio los estándares de seguridad en una de las ciudades más vulnerables del sur de Asia.
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Republican lawmakers called it «insane» that the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court appointed to a key advisory panel a lawyer with past ties to the Biden administration’s controversial Disinformation Governance Board.
Judges on the FISC appointed Jennifer Daskal this month to serve as an amicus curiae, meaning Daskal is now among a small group of lawyers designated to advise the secretive court, which approves warrants for federal authorities to surveil targets for foreign intelligence purposes. The GOP lawmakers say Daskal’s history with the disinformation board raises worries about her ability to discern whether warrants are appropriate.
«The same person who helped to build a board to censor American speech now advises judges on how to protect American liberties,» House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News Digital in a statement. «That’s ridiculous — and exactly why Congress must continue our oversight.»
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Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., echoed Jordan’s concerns, saying Daskal’s appointment was «insane» and calling for reforms to the FISC.
Schmitt shared a video of himself on X questioning Daskal during a hearing about what he called the Biden administration’s «censorship enterprise,» referencing Daskal’s role in aiming to dispel what the administration viewed as inaccurate information about COVID-19 masks and vaccines and information about election security.
FISC proceedings are classified and «ex parte,» meaning a judge reviews the federal government’s warrant application and the target of the warrant has no awareness of the proceedings. A judge reviewing the application can, however, turn to an amicus curiae to present counterpoints to the government’s application, meaning Daskal is among a handful of lawyers who could be tapped to argue against allowing the government to wiretap a person’s phones or otherwise surveil them.

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Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the government has access to these powerful spy tools for foreign intelligence purposes, but it has sometimes, whether inadvertently or intentionally, improperly targeted U.S. citizens.
Building more guardrails into the legislation has long been a point of contention for privacy hawks. Republicans, in particular, became highly critical of the FISC after finding that the court approved the FBI’s warrant applications, which contained flimsy and inaccurate evidence, to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page beginning in 2016.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told the Washington Free Beacon, which first reported on Daskal’s appointment, that the «American people need to have confidence in the people tasked to serve as amici» before the FISC. Grassley pointed to a bill he introduced, the FISA Accountability Act, which would allow Congress to have a say in who is chosen as an amicus curiae.
Jordan and Grassley have been some of the most vocal proponents of reining in the federal government’s use of FISA after identifying instances in recent years of intelligence officials allegedly abusing their authority and infringing on U.S. citizens’ Fourth Amendment right to privacy. In the case of Page, DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz released a report in 2019 that identified more than a dozen «significant errors or omissions» across the FBI’s four warrant applications used to surveil the former Trump aide. Daskal, in her new role, could offer confidential, weighty legal arguments to a FISC judge that support or oppose intelligence officials’ requests to surveil someone.

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Daskal served as a top lawyer in the Department of Homeland Security when she helped launch the Disinformation Governance Board. Conservatives heavily criticized it, describing the board as a «Ministry of Truth» that sought to censor their viewpoints in violation of the First Amendment.
Daskal chartered the board, while Nina Jankowicz was named its executive director, an appointment that fueled Republicans’ fury over it after finding Jankowicz’ past social media posts that they said revealed she was too partisan. Jankowicz, for instance, cast doubt on the New York Post’s bombshell story in 2020 about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which she said fit a pattern of Russian «information laundering.» Biden administration officials vehemently objected to the claims in the New York Post’s story about Joe Biden’s handling of Ukrainian foreign policy, though the authenticity of the laptop itself has been verified through court proceedings.
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Republicans put so much pressure on DHS about the board — calling it an «abuse of taxpayer dollars» and raising alarm that it painted policy disagreements over COVID-19, election security and immigration as mis- or dis- information — that it disbanded just a few months after its launch.
In Daskal’s hearing exchange with Schmitt, Daskal said «it’s not appropriate for the government to censor any points of view.» Daskal did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
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Russia urges Iran, ‘all parties’ in Middle East to show restraint amid US military buildup

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Russia warned Iran and «all parties in the region to exercise restraint and caution» Thursday amid a U.S. military buildup in the Middle East.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the remark as the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and its strike group are moving from the Caribbean toward the Middle East.
«Russia continues to develop relations with Iran, and in doing so, we call on our Iranian friends and all parties in the region to exercise restraint and caution, and we urge them to prioritize political and diplomatic means in resolving any problems,» Peskov said Thursday, according to Reuters.
«Right now, we are indeed seeing an unprecedented escalation of tensions in the region. But we still expect that political and diplomatic means and negotiations will continue to prevail in the search for a settlement,» he added.
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The move of the USS Gerald R. Ford would place two aircraft carriers and their accompanying warships in the region. The USS Abraham Lincoln and three guided-missile destroyers arrived in the Middle East more than two weeks ago.
Negotiations between the United States and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program advanced Tuesday toward what Tehran described as the beginning of a potential framework, but sharp public divisions between the two sides underscored how far apart they remain.
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The USS Gerald R. Ford is heading toward the Middle East as tensions with Iran escalate and President Donald Trump demands full nuclear dismantlement. (Jonathan Klein/AFP via Getty Images)
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said the two sides reached a «general agreement on a number of guiding principles» and agreed to begin drafting text for a possible agreement, with plans to exchange drafts and schedule a third round of talks.
Yet Washington has publicly insisted that any agreement must result in the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program — including its enrichment capacity — along with limits on Tehran’s ballistic missile program and an end to its support for allied militant groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

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Those demands go well beyond temporary enrichment pauses or technical adjustments.
Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
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