Naimat Khan
KARACHI: Sardar Uzair Jan Baloch, a Lyari gangster previously associated with the ruling Pakistan People’s Party, has said that he would deface dead bodies with acid so that they might not be identified.
He made this revelation on the occasion of hearing at Anti Terrorism Court here on Monday, where he was produced with his JIT report. The gang leader, who would once decide Pakistan Peoples Party’s candidates for national and provincial assembly from Lyari’s constituencies, also recorded his statement before the judge.
Baloch told judge that he joined Rehman Dakait group in 2003 and was subsequently made its head after Abdul Rehman was killed in police encounter. The former gang leader told that he then formed a militant group in the name of Peoples Aman Committee.
He confessed to have killed Hawaldar Central Prison Ameen aka Lala in 2011 whereas Ghazi Khan, Sheeraz and Sher Afzal Khan were also murdered by Uzair.
The judge while directing police to submit progress report in the SSP murder case and adjourned hearing till November, 6 2016 The notorious Lyari ganger, Uzair Jan Baloch, had last year revealed that he was directed by City Police Chief, Waseem Ahmed, to kill Ghaffar Zikri and his fellows.
“In 2010, the then CCPO Karachi, Waseem Ahmed, phoned me and asked to come to the residence of SP Farooq Awan,” Baloch has told interrogators of his second Joint Interrogation Team.
Waseem believed that Ghaffar Zikri and others were spreading terror in Lyari so “they should be removed of the way”, discloses Uzair Baloch. According to JIT report, Uzair Jan Baloch in turn demanded that SHOs of Kalri and Bughdari police stations should be his consent.
The then home minister, Dr Zulfiqar Mirza, who was part of the plan, was approached by Baloch to appoint the SHOs pointed out by him. Those in good book of Uzair Jan Baloch at that time included inspector Imtiaz Niazi, Babar Hameed, Sanaullah, Malik Ayub, Abid Tanoli, JavedBaloch and Chand Khan Niazi, reports add.
In 2009 Qadir Patel appointed Muhammad Raeesi as administrator Lyari on the recommendation of Baloch. Raseei would provide Rs 2 lack as monthly extortion to Uzair Baloch.
Sources said that action was taken against the low cadre officers, however, former City police chief, Waseem Ahmed, and SP Farooq Awan have never been questioned nor has any action been taken against them.
Baloch, former chief of Lyari Amn Committee – an organization associated with ruling PPP – was handed over to police on 14-day judicial remand after he made startling revelations, including confession of killing 197 people.
According to reports, the ATC, where he was produced upon the expiry of 90-days Rangers detention, handed over Uzair Baloch to the police for a fourteen-day remand. Police requested the court for a fourteen-day remand of Uzair, which was granted.
Around 65 cases have been lodged against Sardar Uzair Baloch in different police stations of the city, the court was told. According to his JIT report, Baloch has confessed to kill 197 people, including police personnel and traders, mostly in district south of the seaside metropolis.
Uzair Baloch also revealed to the JIT that he accommodated, Saeed JanBaloch, as chairman of the Fisherman Cooperative Society. Saeed JanBaloch would in turn provided extortion money amounting to rupees one crore, on a monthly basis. He confessed to killing 12 traders at the Shershah scrap market, according to TV reports, informing Baloch had also ordered the collective murder of Haji Aslam and his five sons.
He confessed to have ordered the kidnapping of rival gangster Arshad Pappu and three of his accomplices and then carrying out their gruesome murder. He claimed to have used two of his own cars and a police van owned by the Kalri Police Station for the murder.
Baloch confessed to transferring huge amounts of cash to foreign countries.
Uzair Jan Baloch, who had fled to Dubai, was – according to Rangers’ account – arrested when he was entering Karachi from sea route. However, the PPP leadership – who had been trying to distance itself from gangster after his arrest in Dubai, claimed Baloch was arrested in Dubai and the Rangers’ story of arrest was incorrect.
Uzair, 37, has been considered the political face of the Pakistan People’s Party in Lyari, according to reports, confirmed by both former home minister Zulfiqar Mirza and Karachi chief of PPP Abdul Qader Patel.
Uzair Jan Baloch for the first time came to fore when Rehman Dakait was killed in an encounter. He was selected unopposed in a unanimous decision by all the gangs as the new gang leader.
Though PPP publically disowns him, former CM Minister Qaim Ali Shah paid a visit to gangster at his place along with women chapter head and sister of Asif Ali Zardari, Faryal Talpur just after he took oath as CM after the general polls of 2013.
