Fire broke out in a thread factory on Rahon road near Lakhowal village in Machhiwara area on Wednesday morning. There was no loss of life, but a large number of bundles were destroyed in the blaze.

Thread has held the Schachter family together for the past 100 years. “Thread was around me my entire life,” says Hershie Schachter, president of Cansew, a Montreal-based supplier of threads, elastics ...