KARACHI: When flames tore through Karachi’s Gul Plaza last weekend, 29-year-old firefighter Furqan Shaukat moved deeper into the burning building as its structure weakened, responding to calls for help from inside moments before the plaza collapsed. The category-three fire gutted around 1,200 shops in one of Karachi’s busiest commercial districts, killed scores of people and left dozens missing.

Karachi’s deadliest fire in years raises urgent questions about building safety, rescue capacity and urban governance.

KARACHI: Pakistani authorities on Wednesday said 28 bodies had been recovered from a shopping plaza devastated by a massive fire in Karachi last weekend, with dozens of people…