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India-Pakistan
Shocking revelations of Nine-Zero arrestee!
2015-03-16
[NATION.PK] A detained MQM activist has revealed about involvement of former party high-ups in around 120 assassinations over political rivalry in the city, besides naming a Muttahida officebearer in Baldia factory fire in which around 250 people had bit the dust.

In a blurb issued on Saturday, the Rangers spokesperson said that MQM worker Umair Siddiqui, who was presented in an Anti-Terrorism Court the same day, has confessed to his involvement in different cases of assassination and other crimes.

Umair was among dozens of Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
affiliates tossed in the calaboose
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
on March 11 when Rangers conducted a raid at the party's headquarters, Nine-Zero, in Azizabad. The suspect was turned over to the Rangers on physical remand for 90 days.

The press statement said Siddiqui during preliminary interrogation also revealed that a former Baldia Town's sector in-charge of MQM, Rehman aka Bhola, along with his other companions had set on fire the Ali Enterprises garment factory in 2012 that killed at least 258 factory workers.

Rangers personnel had presented a report to the Sindh High Court in February this year which revealed that the MQM had set the factory ablaze. The information had been disclosed by suspect Muhammad Rizwan Qureshi, an alleged worker of the MQM, on June 22, 2013 during joint investigation of the factory inferno. The MQM had vociferously rejected party's involvement in the massacre.

The paramilitary force further claimed that accused Umair Siddiqui had formed a 23-member hit mans' squad on the directives of former in-charge of MQM's Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Tanzeemi Committee (KTC), Hammad Siddiqui, which killed at least 120 people on political grounds.

The statement said that the team comprising MQM workers also killed MQM leader Amir Khan's nephew Sabihullah (in 2011), former Pakistain Peoples Party senator Faisal Raza Abidi's security guard Shahid Hussain and Rangers' Lance Naik Shaukat. Another MQM worker Tahir alias Nadeem SP was also murdered by killers' team.

The blurb further claimed that the accused Umair Siddiqui also revealed that a former deputy convener of MQM's coordination committee, Anis Qaimkhani, had presided over a meeting at Khursheed Begum Memorial Hall in 2008, which was attended by former KTC in-charge Hammad Siddiqui, all sector in-charges and joint sector in-charges of the party. During the meeting Qaimkhani allegedly directed to speed up assassinations in the metropolis on ethnic basis.
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