KARACHI: The Lyari Gangster Uzair Baloch has assets worth billions of rupees in Pakistan, Dubai, Muscat, Doha, Amman, London and Iran, signed documents of a Joint Interrogation Team revealed on Monday, sources told Daily Times.
The JIT documents disclose that Uzair Baloch has a house registered in the name of his brother-in-law worth 1.1 million dirhams. Not only that, Uzair also has an office in Dubai International City worth 500,000 dirham, which is also registered in the name of the same brother-in-law.
In Muscat, Uzair owns a bungalow worth 900,000 Omani rials, which is registered in the name of his friend Shakir while he also owns a plot of land worth 600,000 rials, which is also registered in the name of Shakir. Uzair also owns a house in the Iranian city of Chabahar, which is registered in the name of his relative Jaleel. The value of this bungalow has been estimated at Rs 10 million.
Uzair Baloch has a bank account in his name in Dubai, which has a balance of 200,000 dirhams. Another bank account in the name of his wife has a balance of 500,000 dirhams. His wife has two other accounts in the Dubai branch of National Bank of Pakistan. The total balance in these two accounts amounts to 350,000 dirhams. The notorious gang-war leader is also the owner of vehicles, which include a Land Cruiser in Dubai which is worth 155,000 dirhams and another car worth 22,000 dirhams.
Coming to his assets in Pakistan, Uzair’s wife has a bank account in Lyari’s Chakiwara with a balance of Rs. 1.5 million. Uzair also owns a vehicle in Karachi worth Rs 2.5 million and in Lyari’s Singo Lane he possesses a house worth Rs 20.5 million which is registered in the name of his relative Fahad. He also owns livestock and a store worth Rs. 40 million.
In Chakiwara, Baloch also owns an acre of land worth Rs 40 million. In Hub’s Raees Goth area, he also owns 16 acres of land. In Malir, Uzair Baloch’s manager Dildar Bhatti owns a housing scheme worth Rs. 60 million whereas in another Malir housing society, he has stakes worth Rs. 10.6 million. A joint investigation team probing murder terrorism land grabbing cases against Lyari gangster Uzair Jan Baloch has recommended for trail of his case in the military court. The team has completed its investigations and submitted a report to the Sindh interior secretary.
The report claims that Baloch had links with Iranian intelligence agency. The JIT sources earlier said that Baloch had confessed to killing 197 people, directly or indirectly, including the murder of traders of Shershah scrap market. He had also ordered killing of Haji Aslam, resident of Dalmia area, and his five sons.
The gangster Uzair Jan Baloch’s arrest in Dubai by Interpol has been considered the political face of the Pakistan People’s Party in Lyari, and PPP is struggling to distance itself from it. He tried his luck in politics as an independent candidate for the seat of Lyari Nazim in the 2001 elections that he lost to Habib Hassan, a staunch Pakistan People’s Party activist.
The son of a transporter named Faiz Mohammad alias Faizu Mama, Uzair’s forays into crime came soon after his father was killed by Mohammad Arshad alias Arshad Pappu’s gang in 2003, as he set out to avenge his father’s murder. Arshad Pappu was a rival of Uzair’s first cousin, Abdul Rehman alias Rehman Dakait, who was involved in a long and bitter gang war over drugs and land in Lyari with the Arshad Pappu gang.