KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Friday deferred till Jan 4, 2022 pronouncement of its verdict in a case against alleged Lyari kingpin Uzair Baloch pertaining to the murder of two Rangers personnel.

The chief of the outlawed Peoples Amn Committee has been facing dozens of criminal case pertaining to murder, kidnapping, extortion and terrorism.

He has been indicted for ordering his accomplices to kill the paramilitary personnel in March 2013.

On Dec 18, the ATC-XVI judge, who is conducting the trial in the judicial complex inside the central prison, reserved his verdict for today after recording evidence and final arguments from both sides.

However, on Friday the court deferred its verdict till Jan 4

Earlier, the court had recorded the testimony of Judicial Magistrate Syed Imran Imam Zaidi, who had purportedly recorded confessional statement of Uzair Baloch in the present case in 2016.

According to the prosecution, Uzair disclosed in his statement that two Rangers personnel, Muneer Ahmed Bhutto and Aijaz Ahmed Baloch, who were on intelligence duty, were kidnapped from the Lyari area and later killed on his orders in March 2013.

The accused pleaded innocence claiming that he never made any confession, thus the alleged statement attributed to him was an attempt to harm his reputation as well as of the PPP.

Published in Dawn, December 25th, 2021