Accused confesses to firing at CJP’s rally

Also confesses to killing Sunni Tehreek’s unit in-charge in 2010

KARACHI: A local court recorded the confessional statement of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London (MQM-L) worker Mirza Rizwan Baig alias Chapati, accused of opening fire on the rally of former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Chaudhry on May 12, 2007, before the South Judicial Magistrate.



Baig admitted that along with accomplices he opened fire on CJP’s rally. He said that they had used their personal weapons to fire. A total of 12 were killed and 15 injured in the incident. He named others including Humain alias Sainsdan, Taqi Mamoo, Mansoor among others, who participated in the incident. He confessed to killing Sunni Tehreek’s unit in-charge Qasim alias Pappu in 2010 and to the murder of multiple workers. In 2008 when Benazir Income Support programme began, he started collecting information of women applying for aid and used to take Rs1,500 as extortion money from them. He confessed to his involvement in hooliganism at TV channels on August 22.



He further said that he joined MQM-L in 2006. In 2013 the party got him employed at Sindh government hospital as a ward boy. He said that after the operation in 2016, he remained in hiding at New Karachi and on the night of November 8 he was arrested by the Rangers. After the confession, the court sent accused on judicial remand. 

Published in The Express Tribune, November 25^th, 2018.