Uzair Baloch a spy, Baldia fire a terror incident: JIT.

Karachi -- Alleged Lyari gang warfare kingpin Uzair Jan Baloch passed on secret information regarding Pakistan Army installations to the Iranian intelligence and was behind a large number of targeted killings and politically motivated murders of rival gangsters and civilians whereas Baldia factory fire was a terror incident.

These were among a host of revelations that came to light on Monday evening as the Sindh government made public the joint investigation team (JIT) reports of three high-profile cases - concerning Uzair Baloch, the Baldia factory fire incident and former chairman of the Fishermen Cooperative Society Nisar Morai - after much controversy and litigation in courts.

The three JIT reports were uploaded to the website of the Sindh home department and elicited varied responses from different political parties. But the reports were perhaps awaited the most by Federal Minister for Shipping and Maritime Affairs Ali Haider Zaidi, a leader of the ruling PTI who had taken the Sindh government to court to make the JIT findings public three years ago, as was apparent from several of his tweets. The six-member JIT formed by the Sindh government in February 2016 to interrogate Baloch, comprising representatives of security and intelligence agencies, unanimously declared him as 'black', finding that Baloch along with his gang members was involved in a large number of murders/target killings of his rivals and innocent citizens including ethnic and 'politically motivated killings'.

He also martyred several police and Rangers personnel and attacked police stations. In total, Baloch 'confessed' to killing 198 people on ethnic and political grounds and owing to gang-war rivalry, according to the report.

Another revelation in the report was regarding Baloch's alleged espionage activities. Baloch disclosed that he obtained a fake birth certificate of Iran in the late 1980s with the help of his aunt, who was a dual Pakistan-Iranian citizen, and in 2006 managed to obtain his Iranian identity card and passport.

In 2014, when Baloch was residing with a friend in the Iranian port city of Chabahar, one Haji Nasir offered to arrange a meeting between Baloch and Iranian intelligence officers. A meeting with one such intelligence officer was subsequently arranged in which Baloch 'was asked to provide certain information about armed forces officials [...] besides general security environment of the city', the report said.

'The accused is found involved in...