Zubair Baloch — the brother of jailed Pakistan gangster Uzair Baloch, whose ruthless ascent was dramatised in the movie ‘Dhurandhar’ — is learned to be critically wounded following a targeted drive-by shooting in Karachi’s Lyari neighbourhood on Thursday evening, reports .
Zubair, arrested in multiple criminal cases in 2012, was released from prison last year, while his brother Uzair remains in jail serving a 12-year sentence handed down by a military court. Uzair and several accomplices were indicted for a 2012 armed attack on law enforcement officers under Kalakot police station’s jurisdiction. In April 2020, Uzair Baloch received a 12-year prison sentence for espionage. Following Rehman Dakait’s death in a 2009 police encounter, his cousin Uzair Baloch stepped in to control the dominant faction.
The attackers fled after a nearby shopkeeper returned fire, according to Pakistan police. Police told the local press they were probing angles of personal enmity and the potential resurgence of long-standing gang wars. CCTV footage from the spot, which surfaced on Telegram channels, showed chaos on the street as the gunmen escaped. Notorious figures such as Sardar Abdul Rehman Baloch aka Rehman Dakait and his fierce rival Arshad Pappu turned narrow alleyways into battlegrounds, leveraging strategic political patronage through outfits like Peoples’ Aman Committee to insulate their syndicates from police oversight.