Pakistani official quits over fire deaths 14 (UPI) -- A Pakistani provincial government minister resigned Friday in the wake of a garment factory fire that killed 258 people. The inferno at the Ali Enterprises factory in Karachi took nearly 45 hours to put out, Dawn News reported. Rauf Siddiqui, the minister for industry and commerce in Sindh province, resigned after the tragedy spurred calls for an overhaul of workplace safety standards. Police on Thursday filed murder charges against three men who owned the factory. The fire was finally put out Thursday.