KARACHI: Fear and panic gripped the Chakiwara locality of Lyari on Sunday after unknown suspects carried out a grenade attack there.
The Chakiwara police said that suspects riding a motorbike threw a grenade at Aryan Plaza in the Mola Dad locality and fled.
They said no one was injured in the incident. An investigation into the incident was underway, they said.
Residents of the locality said the building belonged to the chief of outlawed Peoples Amn Committee, Uzair Jan Baloch, who had named it after his son.
A local journalist said criminal activities had increased in Lyari after the release of some gangsters from prison. He said residents feared return of violent clashes between rival Lyari gangs if timely action was not taken.
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Uzair Baloch acquitted in two more cases
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January 30, 2021
KARACHI: A sessions court on Friday acquitted the chief of the defunct Peoples Amn Committee, Uzair Jan Baloch, for lack of evidence in two murder trials.
Baloch, who was allegedly one of the most powerful kingpins of violence in Karachi, was charged with the murders of two people belonging to his rival gang of Arshad Pappu in Lyari in 2004.
However, during the trials, the prosecution could not produce sufficient evidence against him, due to which the additional district and sessions judge South at the Central Jail acquitted him, extending the benefit of the doubt to him.
No law violated in military trial of Uzair Baloch, SHC told
Karachi
January 21, 2021
The military trial of Uzair Jan Baloch was neither mala fide (in bad faith) nor coram non judice (without jurisdiction) and no fundamental right, including the right to a free trial, guaranteed under the constitution was violated, the Ministry of Defence told the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday.
Filing comments on a petition of the alleged Lyari gangster’s family challenging his conviction by a military court on charges of espionage, the Ministry of Defence and the judge advocate general said the findings of the field general court martial (FGCM) were based on legally admissible evidences that proved espionage charges against Baloch in pith and substance.
The allegation that the Sindh government deliberately provided weak prosecution to benefit high-profile criminals in the province, including Lyari gang war leader Uzair Jan Baloch, was echoed in the.