{"id":1147922,"date":"2026-01-18T21:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1147922"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:19:19","slug":"kati-expresses-deep-concern-over-gul-plaza-fire-commends-rescue-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/kati-expresses-deep-concern-over-gul-plaza-fire-commends-rescue-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"KATI expresses deep concern over Gul Plaza fire, commends Rescue efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">KARACHI, Jan 18 (APP):The President of the Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI), Muhammad Ikram Rajput, along with Acting Patron-in-Chief Zubair Chhaya, has expressed profound sorrow and concern over the recent fire at Gul Plaza on M.A. Jinnah Road, Karachi.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a joint statement, they extended heartfelt condolences to the families of those affected and emphasized their solidarity with all members of the business community impacted by the incident.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The leaders described the fire as deeply alarming, not only for the traders and shopkeepers of the plaza but for the entire commercial sector.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They noted that the incident highlights the critical need for stringent safety measures and effective fire protection systems in older, multi-story commercial buildings, particularly those housing a large number of outlets like Gul Plaza, which contained over 1,200 shops.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muhammad Ikram Rajput and Zubair Chhaya paid special tribute to the professionalism and dedication of the rescue and fire-fighting teams, who worked under extremely challenging conditions and thick smoke to safeguard lives and control the fire.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">They also recognized the important contributions of federal and provincial agencies, the Pakistan Navy, Sindh Rangers, and Karachi Municipal Corporation personnel in the ongoing relief operations.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI, Jan 18 (APP):The President of the Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI), Muhammad Ikram Rajput, along with Acting Patron-in-Chief Zubair Chhaya, has expressed profound sorrow and concern over the recent fire at Gul Plaza on M.A. Jinnah Road, Karachi. In a joint statement, they extended heartfelt condolences to the families of those affected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1147923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[4057,4545],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1147922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-kati","tag-zubair-chhaya","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1147923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147922"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1147922"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1147922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}