KARACHI: In a confessional statement before a magistrate, notorious Lyari gangster Uzair Baloch confirmed that he had been in contact with Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav and the Iranian spy agency NDS.

“Baloch said that he knew an Iranian spy, who arranged a meeting with the Iranian secret agency. Baloch confessed to having shared information on the Pakistani armed forces in Karachi with the Iranian spy,” the JIT said.

The former head of the banned People’s Aman Committee has also confessed to his involvement in killings of rival group members, including workers of Pakistan’s Muttahida Qaumi Movement as well as police officials on the orders of senior political leader Abdul Qadir Patel.

Baloch, who reportedly enjoyed patronage of a major political party, was taken into military custody on Tuesday on charges of espionage.

He was arrested by the paramilitary Rangers from the outskirts of Karachi last year.