Over the years Karachi has suffered various waves that have threatened the population. There have been waves of terrorism, collection of extortion and other deadly activities under which those living in this metropolitan city have suffered.

Now the city is undergoing another wave, and this time it is a wave of fires mostly in the business and commercial areas of the city such as garment factories, shopping centers and other such areas visited by the population of this hustling and bustling city.

Every now and then there are news of some factory gutted in either the export processing zone or in other industrial area of the city. Fires are also breaking out in shopping plazas such as the latest fire in the famous Gul Plaza, which has so far a confirmed death toll of more than seventy people and the number keeps growing.

The surprising thing is that even though all fires are the result of more or less the same indifference to safety hazards in the affected buildings no steps are being taken to remove these weaknesses at any level.

We all know that many lives could be saved if Gul Plaza had proper fire........

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