Owner names MQM lawmaker...in Baldia factory fire case

[PakSword]

The voting demographic for MQM is mostly those 45% urdu speakers, their campaign runs on them all immigrating from India.

What's the situation NOW?

 

[Dubious]

Karachi is as much as my city, as the people live there. I want an apology for the people there and untill then I will show them this reality. So stop trying to brush this issue under the carpet.

What reality? This kind of thinking can go both ways! Shall we paint every Pushtoon as PTM? So kindly stop!

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

What reality? This kind of thinking can go both ways! Shall we paint every Pushtoon as PTM? So kindly stop!

Are u having comprehension issues? Or are u that incapable of thinking? Did Peshawar vote in PTM? Stop trying to compare things with other irrelevant things just to prove your falsehood.

What's the situation NOW?

The city has been destroyed by decades of MQM rule. It's like one of the post apocalyptic cities where anything goes, that's the situation RIGHT NOW

 

[Dubious]

Are u having comprehension issues? Or are u that incapable of thinking? Did Peshawar vote in PTM? Stop trying to compare things with other irrelevant things just to prove your falsehood.

Do you have comprehension issued or are you trolling? You are trolling a whole city for the doing of a few so why shouldn't one troll Peshawar for the doings of a few?

It's a double edged sword which you are blind to. And worse yet you have no rights to say such stuff about any city of Pakistan.

This is your final warning

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

Do you have comprehension issued or are you trolling? You are trolling a whole city for the doing of a few so why shouldn't one troll Peshawar for the doings of a few?

It's a double edged sword which you are blind to. And worse yet you have no rights to say such stuff about any city of Pakistan.

This is your final warning

What in the actual hell are you talking about? So, you have no answer to what I'm saying nor are you able to prove your point, so you label me a troll. That is very sweet, but do take a look at what I said. They vited in MQM into power so they were in a MAJORITY not some small group of racist separatists that PTM, is.

Also comparing Peshawar to Karachi is just plain idiotic, since when has Peshawar voted in MQM? This just proves my point of you have comprehension issues.

I being the citizen of Pakistan has no right to say anything about any city in Pakistan? Since when did you become someone that can revoke citizenships? I have full right to fo and speak about any Pakistani city or any thing related to Pakistan.

@WebMaster @waz since when did this lady get the power to state such things.

 

[jupiter2007]

MQM is full of excuses and no work and PSP has same old MQM faces with criminal background. Establishment must encourage JI to comeback in Karachi Politics or create a new non-ethnic base political party in Karachi.

 

[Dubious]

They vited in MQM into power so they were in a MAJORITY not some small group of racist separatists that PTM, is.

Like you don't know how MQM got its votes?

You blaming a whole city is very unjustifiable.

You accusing a whole people is definitely unjustified

Also comparing Peshawar to Karachi is just plain idiotic, since when has Peshawar voted in MQM? This just proves my point of you have comprehension issues.

I being the citizen of Pakistan has no right to say anything about any city in Pakistan? Since when did you become someone that can revoke citizenships? I have full right to fo and speak about any Pakistani city or any thing related to Pakistan.

What are you 2 years old?

I have warned you before and everyone on this forum knows I am a strict warner of those who try to divide my country on any basis be it based on sect, city, province, ethnic groups ....anything

As for revoking your citizenship? What sort of B's is that? Me stopping you from B's doesn't equal to revoking your citizenship. Me forbidding you from making a Tamara doesn't revoke your citizenship. ..what are you high on drugs?

 

[khanasifm]

Owner names MQM lawmaker, six others in Baldia factory fire case

KARACHI: Seven years after the deadly fire that killed more than 250 workers in a Baldia garment factory, an owner of the industrial unit identified a Muttahida Qaumi Movement lawmaker and six others as accused persons, who allegedly planned and set fire to their business over non-payment of ‘protection money’.

While recording his statement from the Pakistan consulate in Dubai through a video link, Arshad Bhaila deposed before an antiterrorism court that the fire in their factory in which over 250 workers perished was an act of terrorism intentionally carried out by the accused persons on the instructions of the MQM leadership.

In July, the trial court had allowed an application moved by Arshad Bhaila and Shahid Bhaila through their counsel Afaq Ahmed pleading to the court to record their testimonies from the Gulf state through a video link citing purported threats to their lives in the country.

On Thursday, the ATC-VII judge, who is conducting trial in the judicial complex inside the central prison, took up the matter to record their statements, when the special public prosecutor moved an application stating that the prosecution had given up witness Shahid and sought to record the statement of his brother Arshad.

Two detained accused — then sector in-charge Abdul Rehman, alias Bhola, and M. Zubair, alias Chariya — were produced from prison. The MQM lawmaker, the then provincial minister for industries, Rauf Siddiqui, gatekeepers of the factory Shahrukh Latif, Fazal Ahmed, Arshad Mehmood and Ali Mohammad appeared on bail.

Hyderabad-based business persons — Ali Hasan Qadri and Dr Abdul Sattar Khan — who have been booked for purportedly using Rs50.9m allegedly extorted from the factory owners on the pretext of compensation for the victims, also appeared on bail.

At the outset, the judge put the accused persons before witness Arshad Bhaila for the purpose of identification through the video link.

The witness rightly picked out Abdul Rehman Bhola, Zubair Chariya and the four factory gatekeepers as the accused persons. However, Mr Bhaila deposed that he had seen Rauf Siddiqui through the media, but neither had met him nor Qadri or Dr Abdul Sattar.

Regular ‘protection money’

The factory owner deposed that they had been paying ‘protection money’ to the MQM every month, adding that they inducted Mansoor Ahmed as the production manager in the factory, who had connections with the political party.

Mansoor Ahmed told the party that the factory owners would pay it Rs1.5m monthly, he added.

The witness further deposed that in 2005 the production manager inducted Zubair Ahmed in the factory’s finishing department, who was a friend of Majid Baig, the younger brother of then sector in-charge Asghar Baig of the MQM in Baldia Town.

The owner deposed that in 2012 the manager told him that they would have to pay more protection money and arranged a meeting with Asghar Baig, who told them that from then they would have to pay an increased amount of protection money to the MQM.

He said on July 12, 2012 Abdul Rehman, alias Bhola, replaced Asghar Baig as sector in-charge in Baldia.

The factory owner mentioned that as they were leaving their factory one day Abdul Rehman intercepted them and threatened to contact the then MQM Karachi Tanzeemi Committee head Hammad Siddiqui over the matter of protection money.

He deposed that later Bhola told them that Siddiqui had asked them to pay Rs250m and 50 per cent share in the factory.

“This stunned us,” the witness deposed, adding that subsequently he asked their manager Mansoor Ahmed to offer to settle the matter against a payment of Rs10m on their behalf.

The factory owner further deposed that due to repeated demands for money by the MQM, they decided to shift their business to Bangladesh and also visited that country in this regard.

He added that the people from the MQM started to vex them regularly due to which they even used to change their routes and vehicles while visiting their factory.

Mr Bhaila recalled that on Sept 11, 2012 a fire first broke out in the basement of the factory and then on the upper floor of the building, but nothing happened on the mezzanine floor.

He said that the fire brigade staff arrived there after a delay of 60 to 90 minutes.

The witness deposed that after the fire engulfed the factory, then head of the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) Ahmed Chinoy sent a message to them through a relative that “it was not safe for them to stay at the burning factory”. Therefore, the owner said they went to a relative’s place.

The factory owner testified that soon after they left the scene, MQM workers took over the place and they did not let anyone to go inside the factory. He said within 24 hours of the incident their names were placed on the Exit Control List.

Bhaila said later a factory worker, Kashif, told them that Zubair Chariya and five unknown men were seen smoking hashish in the factory’s canteen when the fire broke out. According to Kashif, Zubair was involved in setting fire to the industrial unit, he added.

The factory owner also deposed that the police registered an FIR of the incident against them (factory owners) under pressure from then provincial minister for industries Rauf Siddiqui and the MQM leadership. “We were portrayed as villains and the real culprit was shown as a hero,” he added.

Arshad Bhaila said they obtained pre-arrest bail from the Sindh High Court’s circuit bench in Larkana and joined the investigation.

The witness said they had engaged Advocate Naimat Randhawa, who was also killed after he appeared in the court on their behalf on some dates of hearing.

Published in Dawn, September 20th, 2019

https://www.dawn.com/news/1506170/owner-names-mqm-lawmaker-six-others-in-baldia-factory-fire-case

What a country 7 years and still going a case that should under terror law have ended long time ago

Justice delayed is justice denied

Let’s see pti GOVT get it done now [emoji6]

Bravo ppp, pmnl, mqm and justice dept of the PAK and MUSLiM country

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

Like you don't know how MQM got its votes?

You blaming a whole city is very unjustifiable.

You accusing a whole people is definitely unjustified


What are you 2 years old?

I have warned you before and everyone on this forum knows I am a strict warner of those who try to divide my country on any basis be it based on sect, city, province, ethnic groups ....anything

As for revoking your citizenship? What sort of B's is that? Me stopping you from B's doesn't equal to revoking your citizenship. Me forbidding you from making a Tamara doesn't revoke your citizenship. ..what are you high on drugs?

I am criticizing the people and the city I have full right to do so; so please you warning me becomes unconstitutional. Thus my response. I know my rights but it seems you dont know the law.

Also accusation of drug use, that's nice too. Is this cause I'm pakhtoon? Are you racist? See I can play this game too. So do think before you start "warning" people for exercising their constitutional rights.

 

[Dubious]

See I can play this game too.

You are already playing this game and I am telling you to stop! ENOUGH!

 

[Jaanbaz]

Altaf Hussain aka Jabba the hutt should be rotting in a jail or hanged for his crimes against people of Karachi.

 

[Super Falcon]

Big question mark on our law and judicery fact is known who done it but they still freely become mayors and our govt do nothing just kill these basterds

 

[newb3e]

Big question mark on our law and judicery fact is known who done it but they still freely become mayors and our govt do nothing just kill these basterds

and few days that bastard mayor met ishrad ibad and his daddy Mushraf in dubai!

pakar keh dikhao!

 

[Super Falcon]

and few days that bastard mayor met ishrad ibad and his daddy Mushraf in dubai!

pakar keh dikhao!

Bhai aik right habd tu pakda yeh sab haram ka pilla marenga

 

[newb3e]

Bhai aik right habd tu pakda yeh sab haram ka pilla marenga

bro this whole accountability exercise is bs waste of time! fking hand khursheed shah nai chayeh paisay dosrun ki phaat jaani hai line laga keh paisay dain gay!!

lakin ya jo puppeteers hain na woh kuch ai honay dian gay they are collecting datas fot future use!