Naimat Khan
KARACHI: A special team sent to Dubai has taken Hammad Siddiqui – the notorious Karachi Tanzeemi Committee Chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement – into custody, credible sources informed.
“The former KTC chief has been arrested in Dubai by a special team,” an official told The Frontier Post while demanding complete anonymity.
“Hammad will be brought back to Pakistan soon after which he will be presented before the ATC for physical remand,” the official added.
The notorious terrorists belonging to Muttahida Qaumi Movement has ordered to kill hundreds of people besides issuing directives to set the Baldia factory afire, the official added.
Sources further told that if Siddiqui made revelations, many in the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and Pak Sarzameen party may land in trouble. Siddiqui had been enjoying close ties with PSP President Anees Qaimkhani and several leaders of the Dr Farooq Sattar led MQM-P
Last in December, the Sindh government had constituted a Joint Interrogation Team (JIT) for interrogating Abdul Rehman alias Bhola – the prime accused of Baldia Factory Fire Case.
At least 258 poor laborers were burnt alive when allegedly men associated with Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) set ablaze the garment factory for non-payment for extortion money in 2012.
“On the recommendation of Inspector General of Police Sindh, a joint interrogation team (JIT) is herby constituted for the purpose of interrogation in respect of arrested accused Abdul Rehman alias Bhola s/o Abdul Sattar, arrested in case FIR No.343/2012 of police station Site-B,” a notification issued here on Thursday reads, further informing that SSP Investigation West-1 Akhter Farooq will head the JIT, also comprising representatives of ISI, 202 Survey (MI), IB Sindh, Pakistan Rangers, Special Branch and Counter Terrorism Department.
A day earlier, the police obtained physical remand of Rehman Bhola till December 19 from the ATC court. Bhola was produced before the ATC which granted the remand. On Tuesday Bhola was brought to Karachi from Bangkok here on Tuesday.
A two-member Federal Investigation Agency’s team had gone to Bangkok after Bangkok police and Interpol arrested former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Sector In-charge and main accused in the Baldia factory fire case.
According to the charge sheet of Baldia factory case, Abdul Rehman alias Bhola, alongwith other accused set a fire to garment factory after its owner refused to pay extortion to the chief of the MQM Tanzeemi Committee, Hammad Siddiqui. The incident, occurred on 11 September 2012, had taken lives of 258 innocent factory workers.
Abdul Rehman had been absconding with multiple non-bailable arrest warrants being issued by the court but he remained at large till the Bangkok police and Interpol arrested him from hotel in the Thailand capital.
Abdul Rehman, 46, was detained at a hotel in the red light district Nana area of the capital on Friday evening, said Thailand’s Interpol chief.
Sources said that Bhola, a close aide of former Tanzeemi Committee head Hammad Siddiqui, had joined the Mustafa Kamal led Pak Sarzameen Party. According to membership form, Abdul Rehman s/o of Abdul Sattar, age 45, is resident of Baldia Town and is government official in Karachi Metropolitan Corporation.
