ISLAMABAD: The UAE officials have expressed willingness to handover the ringleader of Lyari gang war, Uzair Baloch, who was arrested last month by Interpol while attempting to go to Muscat on a fake Iranian passport.
Uzair is wanted by Karachi police in over dozen of murder, kidnapping, kidnapping for ransom, extortion and other criminal cases of heinous nature.
Private Express News TV Channel while quoting unnamed sources said that Dubai authorities had expressed their willingness to handover Uzair to Pakistan. It said that officials of both the countries were finalizing procedure and formalities for Uzair handover and after completion of the process he might be brought to Pakistan.
Uzair Baloch, an alleged leader of one of the gangs operating in crime-infested Lyari, was arrested in Dubai by the Interpol on December 29.
Television channels broke the news regarding arrest of Uzair Baloch during the first half of the day, but with sketchy details and unconfirmed reports.
Once known for his loyalty to the Pakistan Peoples and close contacts with the party’s leaders and senior members in the Sindh cabinet, eg former home minister Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza, Uzair Baloch took over as leader of Peoples Amn Committee in Aug 2009 when the notorious Abdul Rahman Baloch alias Rahman Dakait was killed in an encounter more than a year after the PPP government came to power. Though the committee is presented as community group by its leaders, it is blamed for its criminal activities which included killings, extortion and drugs business both by police and rival parties of the PPP.
His relations with the PPP started souring after April 2012 when the police launched ‘Lyari operation’. The two-week siege came to an end without any major arrest, but left a number of people, including policemen, dead.
The very next month the Sindh government announced bounty on most wanted criminals of the troubled Lyari neighbourhood. Uzair Baloch carried a prize of Rs 2 million on his head.
The head money notification, however, was withdrawn a month before the May 2013 general elections _ seen as a move by the PPP-influenced caretaker set-up to appease the Peoples Amn Committee, which enjoyed street power in Lyari, the party’s stronghold.
Differences within the Peoples Amn Committee and the widening gulf with the PPP government finally forced Uzair Baloch to leave Pakistan.
In June this year, Islamabad, on a request by the Sindh government, asked Interpol to issue red warrants of Uzair Baloch and Noor Mohammad alias Baba Ladla., The latter was at one time Uzair’s close-aide, but later turned his rival.
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