Magistrate who recorded Uzair’s confession to testify in ATC online
July 11, 2021
The judicial magistrate who recorded the purported confession of suspected gang war leader Uzair Baloch will testify about the confession in an anti-terrorism court (ATC) online.
The decision has been taken in view of security concerns over producing the magistrate in the ATC Complex inside the Central Jail Karachi.
According to a court staffer, the hearing was fixed for Saturday but due to some technical errors, it could not be conducted. The magistrate has been directed to record his statement about the authenticity of Uzair’s confessional statement through WhatsApp, Skype or Zoom.
In the confessional statement, the chief of the defunct Peoples Amn Committee disclosed that that he used to collect bhatta from different government departments and persons. Photo courtesy Hussain Afzal/File
KARACHI: Alleged Lyari kingpin Uzair Baloch has “confessed” to collecting bhatta (protection money) from government functionaries and people at the behest of politicians with connivance of Karachi police high-ups.
These disclosures came in a confessional statement of the alleged gangster recorded before a judicial magistrate under Section 164 of the criminal procedure code (CrPC).
The confessional statement was recently submitted by the prosecutor before antiterrorism court-XVI, which is conducting trial against Uzair in three criminal cases.
Uzair Baloch has made stark allegations predominantly against the PPP leadership and police implicating them as major beneficiaries of his purported criminal enterprise
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April 28, 2021
This refers to the news story, ‘PPP tasks ex-police officer Farooq Awan with wooing voters for NA-249 by-poll (April 25, 2021). It is interesting to note the relationship between the said officer and the PPP. The selection of former SP Police South Farooq Awan to campaign for its candidate in NA 249 raises a lot of questions. He is the brother of Shahadat Awan who was former attorney general of Sindh under the PPP government and is now a PPP senator.
Furthermore, Farooq Awan has also been named in an FIR (No 359/2019) regarding attestation of documents used in obtaining a false CNIC and birth certificate for one Nasreen Begum. These documents were used in a land-grabbing case involving a plot in Clifton, Karachi. The FIR, which is now an ongoing criminal case being tried in the Special Court Karachi, states that the plot in said case belongs to a nephew of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and cousin of Benazir Bhutto. This raises questions over the connection between the form