A two-member team of Federal Investigation Agency on Sunday reached Thailand to takes custody of Abdul Rahman alias Bhola, one of the main accused in the Baldia factory inferno case.
Sources report that the team includes Deputy Director Badar Baloch and Inspector Rehmatullah Domki. The team also took along documents and legal records pertaining to the Baldia factory tragedy.
Sources said that a member of the Pakistani High Commission in Bangkok will assist the FIA team.
It is not clear as yet which date Abdul Rahman will be brought to Pakistan, sources added.
Earlier, Bhola gave his initial statement to Interpol in Bangkok. Bhola, in the statement, maintains that he is a ‘political worker affiliated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement,’ sources within the Federal Investigation Agency told a private news channel.
He was rounded up from Bangkok by Interpol on December 03 upon the request of Pakistani authorities. Around 40 commandos raided a room at the Royal Garden Home Hotel in Soi Nana, and arrested Abdul Rahman alias Bhola, 46, who was staying in the room alone.
In September 2012, 259 people lost their lives and around 600 more were injured when a factory run by Ali Enterprises in Karachi’s Baldia Town caught fire. In the four years since then, families of the workers who died in in this incident have ceaselessly sought justice for their loved ones, engaging in regular bouts of protest and litigation to hold those responsible for the blaze accountable.