Pakistan's Supreme Court has overturned the convictions and death sentences of two members of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM, a major political party based in Karachi) — Abdul Rehman alias Bhola and Zubair alias Chariya — for their alleged roles in the 2012 Baldia factory fire in Karachi. The blaze at the Ali Enterprises garment factory on 11 September 2012 killed over 260 workers, making it the deadliest industrial fire in Pakistan's history, with the two men having been sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in 2020 and that verdict upheld by the Sindh High Court in 2023. The Supreme Court bench granted the accused the benefit of the doubt, citing the absence of direct evidence, questions over the admissibility of a Joint Investigation Team report that formed the basis of the prosecution's case, and the fact that other co-accused in the same case had already been acquitted.