JIT report implicates MQM extortionists in Baldia Factory fire !

[Leader]

 

[Leader]

The fire claimed 250 workers burnt alive... the extoritionist admitted that they demanded money from the owner, failing which they set the factory on fire and implicated the owner as responsible and then demanded money again if he wanted a bail out from it..

this is sickening and totally barbaric.. you will rot in hell !

 

[Imran Khan]

اردو بولنے والوں کے لیے الگ صوبہ نہیں اب ملک بنایا جائے مہاجروں کو دیوار سے لگایا جا رہا ہے ۔ پاکستان توڑنے کی سازشیں کی جارہی ہیں ۔ پاکستان بنانے والوں کی اولادوں کو دہشت گرد کہا جا رہے ۔ ہم اس پر احتجاج کرتے ہیں ۔ کل پورے سندھ میں پہیہ جام ہڑتال ہو گی کارکنان صبر و تحمل کا مظاہرہ کریں ۔ ہم ایسے ملک میں نہیں رہ سکتے جو اپنے معصوم بیٹوں کو دہشت گرد کہے ۔ کراچی میں بھتا خؤری بند ہونی چاہیے ۔ الطاف حسین کی کل کی تقریر

 

[karakoram]

MQM should be ban and declare as terrorist organisation along with ANP

 

[I.R.A]

How did we find out here that it is MQM (not that I am their big fan) but the scanned document is not readable.

 

[Leader]

In a startling revelation in a Baldia factory fire case, a joint investigation report (JIT) by law enforcement agency declared that the factory blaze was an act of ‘foul play’, instead of an incident, after its owner refused to pay an extortion ammount, ARY News reported Friday.

Rangers today submitted their JIT in the Sindh High Court.

The report said it was an organized crime. A top leader of a political party had sought Rs 200 million from the Baldia factory owner. When the owners approached the political leader, he feigned ignorance.

The report, citing arrested accused Rizwan Qureshi who revealed the entire episode, said altercation between the factory owners and a political leader also erupted. The political bigwig was subsequently was also relieved of his responsibilities in the party, added the report.

It is said in a report that chemical was spilled in a factory with a purpose to set it on fire – in reaction against non-payment of extortion.

The main accused, who is under custody of Rangers, made big revelations. He alleged that a ‘front man’ obtained Rs 150 million from factory owners to ‘wind up’ the case.

Rangers also recovered a list from the accused which contained names of his targets who were to be killed.

Sources told that the accused is a sanitary worker of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC).

Blaze in Ali Enterprises – a garment factory in Baldia Town – burnt at least 258 people alive on September 11, 2012.

 

[karakoram]

How did we find out here that it is MQM (not that I am their big fan) but the scanned document is not readable.

what do you think who is involve in terrorism in karachi ? i am from KPK and i think anp and mqm both have military wing and they are destroying the peace of karachi.

 

[Leader]

How did we find out here that it is MQM (not that I am their big fan) but the scanned document is not readable.

Siyasi jamat ka alla ohday-dar, not named but obviously MQM.

 

[Al Bhatti]

How did we find out here that it is MQM (not that I am their big fan) but the scanned document is not readable.

First picture, first table, row no. 9

The last paragraph of the 3rd picture is interesting, paragraph heading " Arrest of MQM (A) members during bogus voting in 2013 ...... " , "cast approximately 30 thousand votes in NA251 and PS 114".

 

[chauvunist]

Political affiliation:MQM(A)

 

[Al Bhatti]

At a quick glance i think i found one typo, It should have been Crore not Caror.

 

[Leader]

Political affiliation:MQM(A)

Babar Ghouri says no bhatta was demanded from Baldia Factory...

how the hell did he know? and above that its an admission to the fact that they do demand bhatta, but denying this.

 

[waleed3601]

@KURUMAYA @Patriots your thoughts pls?
if you can't find any defense then please consult local PDF noonies they can teach you a thing or 2 about defending the indefensible.
258 people man. double the Peshawar tragedy.
DOUBLE.
Jeez these people.

 

[Jaanbaz]

Okay, launch another military operation in Karachi. I'm sure Taliban will join side of Rangers to wipe out MQM.

 

[Bratva]

MQM should be ban and declare as terrorist organisation along with ANP

Baldia inferno: JIT accuses political party of starting fire
By Naeem Sahoutara
Published: February 7, 2015
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When contacted, MQM leaders and office-bearers were unavailable for comments. PHOTO: AFP

KARACHI:
The Rangers have placed the blame of the Baldia factory fire on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in a report submitted to the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday.

They claimed that some members of the party were linked to the deadly fire which left more than 259 men and women dead on September 11, 2012.

In the report submitted to a division bench of the SHC hearing identical petitions seeking a judicial inquiry into the incident, law enforcers claimed that they had arrested a man in connection to the industrial fire and during the interrogation he had identified himself as an MQM worker. When contacted, MQM leaders and office-bearers were unavailable for comments. On January 13, while hearing the petitions filed by the Pakistan Industrial Labour Education Research, Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum and others, the bench ordered DIG Sultan Khwaja to submit a report of the investigations. The bench also issued notices to the heads of the intelligence and law enforcement agencies to submit their report on the incident.

In response to the court’s notice, the additional attorney-general Salman Salibuddin filed classified reports from the deputy assistant judge advocate general of the Pakistan Rangers, which was taken on record by the judges. This means that the report is now public property. The report claimed that the accused, Rizwan Siddiqui, son of Sheikh Iqbaluddin Qureshi, was arrested by the district South police in connection with the fire following an FIR No 61/2013 registered under Sections 23 (1)A of the Sindh Arms Act at the Artillery Maidan police station.

A joint investigation team (JIT) headed by SSP South and men from the police, Inter- Services Intelligence, Intelligence Bureau, Pakistan Rangers and the Federal Investigation Agency interrogated him on June 22, 2013.

During the interrogation, the accused claimed that a well-known party leader had demanded Rs20 million in extortion via his front man from the owners of Ali Enterprises in August 2012. Following this, the owner met the party’s Baldia Town sector in-charge, Asghar Baig, and told him that someone was using the party’s name to extort money.

Baig spoke to his brother, Majid, and they took the factory owners to the MQM’s headquarters in Azizabad, Nine Zero. They had arranged a meeting with the in-charge of the Karachi Tanzeemi Committee (KTC), Hammad Siddiqui and Farooq Saleem, and told them that the factory owners were party supporters. They also told Hammad and Saleem about the extortion threats.

According to the report, Hammad and Saleem, claimed that the issue was not due to their demand. The suspect told the JIT that the response of the KTC’s in-charge upset Baig and his brother who exchanged harsh words with Hammad and Saleem.

A few days later, according to Rizwan, Hammad suspended Baig from his position and replaced him with Rehman Bhola. The report claims that Hammad and Saleem sent Bhola to collect extortion money from the owners of Ali Enterprises on orders from a party official and former minister.

“Rehman Bhola demanded Rs20 million as extortion from the factory owners,” stated the report. “When they refused on September 11, 2012, he [Bhola] and his accomplices threw a chemical substance that started the fire at the factory.” The report claimed that the next day, the Crime Investigation Department raided Baig and Majid’s house and left with Majid in their custody.

Baig’s brother was released after the police recorded statements of the factory owners claiming that he was not involved in the incident.

Quoting the accused, the JIT report stated that after receiving orders from a high official in the party, a former minister went to the police station and registered a case against the factory owners. They had arranged for bail before arrest from the SHC but the former minister used his connections to get their bail cancelled.

It was then that a former prime minister stepped in to help the owners and got them a bail from the Lahore High Court instead. MQM leaders claimed, however, that the premier should not intervene in a provincial matter.

The report added that he [Bhola] and an unidentified member of the party took Rs1.5million to dispose of the case. The accused told the JIT that the information he had shared with them, he had received from the former sector in-charge of Baldia Town.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 7th, 2015.