An 11-year-old boy is set to stand trial in juvenile court after being accused of playing with matches and starting a fire that tore through the Gul Plaza shopping mall in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi in January, killing 72 people.

Another prosecutor greenlights IO to file charge sheet in court without including judicial commission’s report.

Karachi’s Gul Plaza fire case sees an 11-year-old boy and five others charged over a blaze that killed 72, gutted 1,100 shops and exposed major safety lapses.