DUBAI (Web Desk) – Pakistani officials are optimistic that they will take custody of Uzair Baloch, a notorious leader of the Lyari gang war on Sunday (today) as a local court is likely to announce its decision on his extradition.
As per reports, two cases against Baloch have also been disposed off in the UAE to pave the way for his expulsion.
The sources further said that a temporary passport for his traveling has yet to be issued by the UAE authorities.
Uzair was arrested during traveling from Muscat to Dubai.
Previously, he was sentenced to imprisonment in Pakistan but was not arrested.
In 2012, a court warranted for the arrest of two leaders of the banned People’s Aman Committee including Uzair Baloch and an alleged member of the proscribed Balochistan Liberation Army in illicit weapons cases.
The police claimed to have detained the suspects in 2012 and alleged that the explosive stuff and illicit weapons were found in their possessions and they were involved in supplying arms and ammunition to criminals associated with the Lyari gang warfare.
Uzair Baloch had been declared a proclaimed offender in the case and the court had ruled that proceedings against the offender would be conducted in absentia under Section 19 (10) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.
