Notification Issued: Bounty offer withdrawn

Sindh home department has issued notification to withdraw head money on eight alleged gangsters from Lyari.

KARACHI: The Sindh home department has issued a notification to withdraw head money on eight alleged gangsters from Lyari.

The provincial government has withdrawn bounty on Omar Katchi, Fahim, Sheraz Comrade, Abdul Jabbar Jhengo, Faisal Pathan, Rashid Rekha Bangali, Mullah Nisar and Rashid Lond.

These men are accused of running organised crime in the city’s oldest area, Lyari, and face many charges including murder, kidnapping for ransom, extortion, police encounter, drug supply and other such heinous crimes.

The cases have not been withdrawn. Only the price tag on their head has been removed.

It may be mentioned here that earlier, the government had issued notification in November to withdraw the case and Rs1.5 million head money on Zafar Baloch, a close aide of ex-home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza.

The most wanted among these men was Uzair Jan Baloch who heads the Peoples Amn Committee (PAC) after police killed Abdul Rehman Baloch, better known as Rehman Dakait. Uzair Baloch is not in the list of people whose bounty has been withdrawn.

Uzair Baloch had announced he will contest election against PPP after the 2012 Lyari operation.

According to sources the PPP leadership in a bid to secure the Lyari seat held a number of meetings with local leaders of the constituency but they in turn demanded withdrawal of cases against PAC top guns including Uzair Baloch, Habib Hassan, Zaffar Baloch and others.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 16^th, 2013.