- Detained MQM worker confesses MQM sector in-charge behind 2012 Baldia Town inferno, admits MQM’s involvement in illegal activities
Compounding the worries of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Rangers asserted Saturday that detained MQM worker Umair Siddiqui has been involved in 120 target killings while he has also confessed that MQM Sector In-Charge Rehman Bhola was the man behind the deadly 2012 Baldia Town fire that claimed at least 258 factory workers.
Rangers personnel had presented a report to the Sindh High Court in February this year which revealed that the MQM had set the factory ablaze. During joint investigation of the factory inferno, the information had been disclosed by suspect Mohammad Rizwan Qureshi, an alleged worker of the MQM, on June 22, 2013.
In a press release issued Saturday, the Rangers spokesperson said that Siddiqui, who was presented in an anti-terrorism court yesterday, confessed to being given the task of killing those that opposed the MQM.
The accused allegedly received orders to form a team of target killers which included 23 MQM members belonging to various units. The said team was involved in the killing of approximately 120 people that opposed the party.
The orders were issued by Hamad Siddiqui, a member of MQM’s Karachi Tanzeemi Committee, the press release stated.
Umair Siddiqui and his team of target killers also allegedly murdered the Rangers’ Lance Naik Shaukat. Siddiqui was also involved in the murders of former senator Faisal Raza Abidi’s guard and MQM representative Amir Khan’s nephew Sabihullah. Another MQM worker Tahir alias Nadeem SP was also murdered by the team, the press release said.
During interrogation, the suspect revealed that in 2008, MQM’s Deputy Convener Anees Qaim Khani held a meeting at Khurshid Memorial Hall to speed up target killings on a linguistic basis.
The suspect also revealed that he used a dealer in Quetta to procure weapons for MQM’s armed wing. In one instance he confessed to buying 40 Kalashnikovs, eight LMGs, one rocket launcher, six G3s, five China rifles and three MGs.
He went on to claim that in February 2015, all sector in-charges were directed to return their extra weapons to Nine Zero to prevent being found during raids. The said weapons were allegedly transferred from one area to another with the help of ambulances.
The suspect further confessed that approximately 250 to 300 target killers reside, or are in hiding, in the neighbourhood surrounding the MQM headquarters.
Moreover, in the 2013 elections, on the orders of the suspect, 60 to 70 party workers in Gulistan-e-Jauhar submitted fake votes in favour of MQM candidate Faisal Subzwari at the polling stations which were situated in the Maymar sector, the press release stated.
For this purpose, a day before the elections, the presiding officers were called to the sector office and were made to agree to the fake votes, Siddiqui allegedly confessed. He added that in every polling station, 15 to 20 boxes full of fake ballots were given to the presiding officers.
The suspect was turned over to the Rangers on physical remand for 90 days.
Altaf and company are the secular Taalbaans on the left and must be eliminated to make the earth pious and pure from Pakistan. It's urban cancer and must be treated by removing away from Karachi and fortunately Arabean Sea is very near to accomplish this process.
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