MQM-L worker confesses murdering 12 people during May 12 carnage

KARACHI: A Muthaida Qaumi Movement-London (MQM-L) worker Mirza Rizwan Baig on Saturday confessed killing at least 12 people during the May 12, 2007 carnage, ARY News reported on Saturday.

According to ARY News correspondent, Rizwan Baig alias Chapati recorded his confessional statement in the court of the Judicial Magistrate South and admitted his involvement in the bloodshed on May 12, 2007 when the then deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Chaudhry landed in Karachi.

“I had killed 12 political workers and injured 15 others in shootout on May 12 at the rally political parties  that were taken out to welcome the deposed CJP in Karachi”, Rizwan told the court.

Rizwan said, he had joined MQM in 2006 and got the job in Sindh government hospital in 2013 with the support of MQM-London.

Detailing the heinous crimes he had committed, he said, he along with help of his companions namely Hameed aka ‘Sainsdan’, Taqi, Mansoor and others, had killed Unit incharge of Suni-Tehreek at Karachi’s Kashmir road in 2010.

He also confessed killings of sector member of MQM Haqiqi, Farooq and other workers of the various political parties in the city, adding that was also involved in vandalizing properties during the strike that were called by the party in past.

The MQM-L worker also admitted his involvement in the attack on ARY News’ Saddar office on August 22, 2016 after MQM founder Altaf Hussain’s incendiary speech.

Rizwan Baig said he was apprehended by the Sindh Rangers party on November 8.

The court after recording the statement of the accused sent him to jail on judicial remand.