Fizzah Sajjad

Fizzah Sajjad is an urban planner and geographer based in Lahore. She is co-editor of Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan (UCL Press, 2025). Her work focuses on issues of urban inequality and exclusion in rapidly urbanising contexts.

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Trial by Fire

Fizzah Sajjad

Jul 21, 2025

In September 2012, over 250 workers perished in a fire at Ali Enterprises, a garment factory in Karachi working for a German retailer. Was this arson or an accident? Laurent Gayer’s ‘Gunpoint Capitalism: Enforcing Industrial Order in Karachi’ takes this tragedy to take a probing look at a culture of industrial order through force in Karachi.