Workers at Pakistan's lone beer maker, Murree Brewery, line up empty beer bottles at the factory in Rawalpindi, Nov. 10, 2012.

An employee prepares barley at the Murree Brewery in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Nov. 10.

A Murree Brewery employee checks barrels at the factory in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Nov. 10.

A Murree Brewery guard closes the factory's main gate in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Nov. 10.

A vendor covers shelves filled with hard alocohol at a shop in Prague, Czech Republic, on Friday. The Czech government banned the sale of hard alcohol in the wake of a series of deaths linked to such drinks. Health Minister Leos Heger made the announcement in a television broadcast. The ban would apply for the foreseeable future to all liquor with an alcohol content of more than 20 per cent. The announcement comes after at least 19 deaths linked to people who drank vodka or rum drinks spiked with methanol, which can cause illness in small quantities and blindness or death in larger doses.

Workers puts tape to close an aisle with hard liquor in a supermarket in Prague on Friday. The Czech Health Ministry on Friday indefinitely banned the sale of drinks containing more than 20 percent alcohol after 19 people died from drinking bootleg spirits containing poisonous methanol, the CTK news agency reported.

A bartender covers bottles of hard liquor with towels in a bar in Prague .

A policeman leads a man accused in the case of illegal alcohol to the court in Zlin, Czech Republic, 150 miles east of Prague on Friday. His arrest is in connection with the latest police discovery. Around 500 bottles and several barrels of illicit booze were found in a garage in the eastern city of Zlin on Thursday. Eighteen people have recently died after drinking liquor tainted with methanol (methyl alcohol) in the Czech Republic.

Emergency medical technician Debra Lund, right, prepares to hang an IV bag as co-worker Stacey Kreitlow, center, inserts an IV catheter into the arm of a patient on the Hangover Heaven bus in Las Vegas on April 15, 2012. Pictures made available April 23.

A patient is seen hooked up to an IV.

Workers prepare vessels for washing rice at Terada Honke sake brewery in Kozaki city, Chiba province, Japan, on Jan. 19. Sake is made through a fermentation process using a mold called Koji in Japanese that is found throughout South and East Asia.

Sake makers sing traditional songs while crushing freshly steamed rice.

Tomoyuki Minami stirs fermenting sake at Terada Honke sake brewery.

A close-up view showing rice used for making sake.

Members of a smuggling group stand near boxes in a tent as they prepare to move during an alcohol-smuggling operation from Iraq to Iran, at the border near Sulaimaniya, Iraq, on Jan. 26, 2012.

Border security forces have repeatedly clashed with smugglers who use the remote, rugged landscape to facilitate their operations.

Family members carry their relative, who fell ill after consuming bootleg liquor, inside a hospital at Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata, India, on Dec. 15, 2011. An adulterated batch of bootleg liquor has killed at least 100 drinkers in eastern India, with dozens more arriving at a cramped rural hospital with poisoning symptoms.

A woman is comforted as she cries after hearing of her relative's death from toxic alcohol on Dec. 15, 2011.

A victim receives medical treatment at the Diamond Harbour hospital on Dec. 15, 2011.

Two intoxicated men rest as it rains in Kolkata, India, Aug. 6.

Pakistani security officials gather as a steamroller prepares to crush seized bottles of liquor drugs during a ceremony to mark International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, in Karachi on June 26, 2011. Pakistan has more than four million drug addicts in a population of 176 million, according to figures compiled by the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF), which is responsible for investigating and prosecuting drug offences. Opium poppy is grown on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, a region infamous for Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked strongholds, and branded the most dangerous place in the world for Americans by US President Barack Obama.

Pakistani soldiers destroy seized bottles of liquor during a ceremony to mark International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, in Karachi on June 26.

Youths toast with beer as they party in a public park in Ankara late on January 29, 2011 following a call made on Facebook by Turkish internet users to protest against new regulations tightening alcohol sales in Muslim, but secular Turkey. Turkey's Islamist-rooted government is under fire since it tightened early in January rules on alcohol sales, with opponents charging that the new regulation targeted secular lifestyles.

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