Notorious Lyari ganglord Uzair Jan Baloch, who was reportedly cut loose by United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities last week, has allegedly gone into hiding. Master of a ring of gangs, fugitive Uzair Baloch, who had taken flight to Middle East to avoid arrest, is wanted in Pakistan for multiple counts of violent crime including homicides, extortion, possession of illegal arms, kidnapping for ransom, etc.
On December 28, 2014, the red-warranted runaway manslayer landed in the hands of Interpol at Dubai-Oman border. Baloch was trying to walk into UAE on a counterfeit passport. According to sources in Dubai, Baloch is reportedly unwinding at a top Pakistani politician's residence in Emirates Hills, a high-end gated community, which is, for the most part, home to the elite expatriate community.
Pakistani officials DSP Zahid Hussain, SP Usman Bajwa, SP Naveed Khawaja, and a Rangers officer did go to Dubai to negotiate Baloch's extradition but were sent packing back home after a documentary fiasco. Many a media pundit in Pakistan doubted the extradition team's intentions accusing them of deliberately botching the job. According to a media report, right now, Baloch, who also holds Iranian nationality, is presumably in Afghanistan as one of his close relatives has claimed to have received a phone call from the gang war suspect from an Afghan number.