{"id":22391,"date":"2026-06-23T12:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22391"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:53:28","slug":"police-hold-union-officials-responsible-in-gul-plaza-fire-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22391","title":{"rendered":"Police Hold Union Officials Responsible in Gul Plaza Fire Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Police have held several union office-bearers responsible for the deadly Gul Plaza fire incident in Karachi, according to the investigation report submitted in court.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sources in the prosecution department said the charge sheet names Union President Tanveer Pasta, Vice President Ammar Ismail, General Secretary Ameen and Joint Secretary Muhammad Ramzan as being responsible for the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators reportedly concluded that negligence and failures in safety arrangements contributed to the scale of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>However, the prosecution department has returned the charge sheet with objections, seeking further review and necessary amendments before proceeding.<\/p>\n<p>The devastating fire broke out on January 17 this year at Gul Plaza, a major commercial center located on M.A. Jinnah Road in Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue operations continued for several days as firefighters struggled to control the blaze, which remained active for nearly three days.<\/p>\n<p>More than 70 people lost their lives in the incident, while the entire building was destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Further court proceedings will depend on the approval and resubmission of the finalized charge sheet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have held several union office-bearers responsible for the deadly Gul Plaza fire incident in Karachi, according to the investigation report submitted in court. Sources in the prosecution department said the charge sheet names Union President Tanveer Pasta, Vice President Ammar Ismail, General Secretary Ameen and Joint Secretary Muhammad Ramzan as being responsible for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[12543,4953,9051,10446,10405,912,74,7609,5085,12539,9168,12540,12541,11356,12542],"class_list":["post-22391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-commercial-building-fire","tag-court-proceedings","tag-fire-incident","tag-gul-plaza","tag-gul-plaza-tragedy","tag-investigation","tag-karachi","tag-karachi-fire","tag-karachi-news","tag-m-a-jinnah-road","tag-pakistan-news","tag-police-charge-sheet","tag-prosecution-department","tag-tanveer-pasta","tag-union-officials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22393,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22391\/revisions\/22393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}