He’s never deterred by difficult circumstances.”[3] By the time he retired from the company in 2003, JS Group comprised a range of businesses with over 18,000 employees.
[5] In December 2010, Siddiqui was placed on the Exit Control List (ECL) for alleged land grabbing in Karachi which alleged that Jahangir Siddiqui had illegally occupied a plot of 1,000 square yards in Karachi in connivance with the owner of an estate agency, using forged documents.
[8] Siddiqui sued a group of individuals, including the Anti-Corruption Establishment director and a member of EDO Revenue for defamation, indicating that the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee had evaluated land in 2001 and found the ownership of the property legal.
[10] The court issued a restraining order preventing the defendants from "media attack" pending settlement of the matter.
[12] He is a Sindhi from Dadu City his family moved to Hyderabad later, he is the brother of the television director, producer and businessperson Sultana Siddiqui,[13] and the uncle of her son, businessman Shunaid Qureshi.