KARACHI: Another Detained Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) worker Umair Siddiqui accepted his involvement in the deadly 2012 Baldia Town fire and killing 120 workers.
According to details, a report presented by Rangers personnel in Sindh High Court in February this year which revealed that the MQM had set the factory ablaze.
The information had been disclosed by suspect Mohammad Rizwan Qureshi, an alleged worker of the MQM, on June 22, 2013 during joint investigation of the factory inferno.
In a press release issued today, the Rangers spokesperson said that Siddiqui, who was presented in an Anti-Terrorism Court today, confessed to being given the task of killing those that opposed the MQM.
The accused allegedly received orders to form a team of target killers which included 23 MQM members belonging to various units. The said team was involved in the killing of approximately 120 people that opposed the party.
The orders were issued by Hamad Siddiqui, a member of MQM’s Karachi Tanzeemi Committee, the press release stated.
MQM Chief Altaf Hussain said Saturday that the party was being deliberately maligned. He asserted that false statements were being coerced out of those arrested by the Rangers.
The MQM supremo also disassociated himself from Umair Siddiqui.
“Who is he?” Altaf questioned.
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