Uzair Baloch was an Iranian spy, JIT report says.

KARACHI -- The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) report on Lyari ganglord Uzair Jan Baloch states that he 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.

The Sindh government made public the 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 on Monday.

The three JIT reports were uploaded to the website of the Sindh home department and elicited varied responses from different political parties.

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/targeted killings of his rivals and innocent citizens including ethnic and 'politically motivated killings'.

'The accused has accepted his criminal acts before JIT and co-related all his actions with actual criminal happenings on [the] ground,' the report said of the chief of the outlawed Peoples Amn Committee (PAC). 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 gangwar rivalry, according to the report. It revealed that Baloch, 42, told the investigators that he and his accomplices killed 11 traders of the Shershah junk market in 2010 because they were 'sympathisers' of a political party and gave extortion to that party.

He also admitted that in order to take revenge of the killing of his father, he kidnapped his rival gang leader Arshad Pappu and two others with the help of certain police officers and murdered them brutally. In addition to the murders, the JIT said Baloch was also involved in extortion, land grabbing, China-cutting and narcotics trafficking.

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...