{"id":99028,"date":"2026-01-29T18:06:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=99028"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:06:42","slug":"sindh-govt-announces-judicial-commission-to-investigate-gul-plaza-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sindh-govt-announces-judicial-commission-to-investigate-gul-plaza-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sindh govt announces judicial commission to investigate Gul Plaza tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The Sindh government has announced to investigate the Gul Plaza tragedy through a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/judicial-commission-confirms-permanent-cjs-for-ihc-phc-bhc-shc\/\">judicial commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While holding a press conference in Karachi, Senior Provincial Minister Sharjeel Memon said that the government is writing a letter to the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court for a judicial investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The letter will request that the tragedy be investigated by a serving judge. He will not come under pressure from any political party. Payment of relief checks to the martyrs of Gul Plaza has started.<\/p>\n<p>The decision of the judicial commission was not made under pressure from any political party. We are accountable to the people, not to any political party.<\/p>\n<p>He said that some political parties are doing politics on the tragedy. We are not doing politics on such incidents, but some parties are.<\/p>\n<p>The Sindh government is not under any pressure. We are doing what we have to do. When we felt it, we wrote for a judicial inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>The senior Sindh minister said that after the Gul Plaza incident, the Sindh cabinet formed a committee. The committee was to decide on the report of the committee formed under the chairmanship of the Commissioner Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>The report of the committee formed by the Commissioner Karachi has come. It is a very detailed report and contains interviews of all the people.<\/p>\n<p>Sharjeel Memon said that when the incident happened, there were 2,500 to 2,000 people in the building. Gul Plaza had been safety audited twice, but it was not implemented.<\/p>\n<p>The Civil Defense Department has visited Gul Plaza several times since 2023 and issued two notices. 80 precious lives were lost in the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>There was a shortage of water during the firefighting process. We salute the martyred firefighter who sacrificed his life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The Sindh government has announced to investigate the Gul Plaza tragedy through a judicial commission. While holding a press conference in Karachi, Senior Provincial Minister Sharjeel Memon said that the government is writing a letter to the Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court for a judicial investigation. The letter will request that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":97808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33756],"class_list":["post-99028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-gul-plaza-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99030,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99028\/revisions\/99030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}