SHC order to make JIT reports public challenged in SC, court told.

KARACHI -- The provincial authorities have informed the Sindh High Court that they have challenged its order to make public the joint investigation team (JIT) reports of the Baldia factory fire incident, the alleged Lyari gangster Uzair Jan Baloch and former chairman of the Fishermen Cooperative Society Nisar Morai before the Supreme Court.

In January, the SHC had directed the Sindh chief secretary to make these JIT reports public on a petition filed in 2017 by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Syed Ali Zaidi, now a federal minister.

However, the PTI leader through his lawyer filed an application before the SHC asking it to initiate...