Altaf Hussain rejects JIT report into Baldia factory inferno

KARACHI: Rejecting the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) report into Baldia factory incident, MQM chief Altaf Hussain has directed his party to sue the members of the JIT for implicating MQM.

Demanding death sentences for the perpetrators of the factory inferno which engulfed the lives of over 250 people in Karachi in 2012, Mr Husssain said that another tragedy might happen if the people involved in the Baldia factory incident were not brought to book.

“It is illegal, immoral and against Islam to blame a political party for such an incident,” he said addressing party workers by telephone.

Besides calling for reinvestigation through Scotland Yard or a UN probe team, the MQM supremo asked what happened to findings of General Ziaul Haq’s plane crash, Ojhri camp incident and murder of Benazir Bhutto.

He said no JIT was formed to probe great tragedies in Pakistan. He said that if any MQM activist was found involved in the incident, he must be hanged but a political party should not be blamed for actions of an individual.

Altaf Hussain said that 12 May incident was a conspiracy hatched by the Awami National Party as MQM had arranged a rally in the city for the independence of the judiciary.

He also advised TV anchors to refrain from mudslinging.