Category: Crime

Law enforcement officials in Lahore have been recorded on video abducting a doctor and illegally taking money from his account, showcasing what is being called blatant misuse of authority.

Dr. Mukhtar Hussain was taken from his home in Model Town by six men, including police officers in uniform. Surveillance footage shows the assailants forcing the doctor into a vehicle and subsequently taking him to an ATM, where he was forced into withdrawing Rs. 100,000.

Six suspects, including uniformed police officers, are said to have abducted Dr. Mukhtar Hussain from his Model Town home before transporting him to Gajju Matah. Later, three of the cops went back to his house to get his ATM card so they could empty his account.

Authorities have opened an inquiry into the matter as calls for tough punishment for the offenders are intensifying.

In the meantime, Darakhshan Police Station in Karachi became mired in controversy when a senior police officer was accused of setting bribe rates for unlawful activities, including dance parties and unlicensed tea cafés. 

A leaked video shows Head Moharar Hamraz discussing weekly bribes from companies under his control that range from Rs. 30,000 to Rs. 40,000. He allegedly promised prospective companies a “discount” of Rs. 25,000 and that they may function freely as long as payments were made.

An internal investigation has been initiated while Hamraz has been suspended since the publication of the video. Public anger about rampant police corruption has been ignited by the incident, with  many calling for fundamental shifts to stop law enforcement from becoming organized extortionists.

Chilling new details have emerged in the Mustafa Amir murder case, as prime suspect Armaghan has confessed to the gruesome crime, revealing a horrifying game of chance that sealed Mustafa’s fate. 

Police said that as soon as Mustafa Amir entered his home, Armughan ambushed him and struck him with an iron rod in a cold-blooded, well-planned assault. What happened after that, however, was far more unsettling.

By flipping a coin and telling Mustafa, ‘If it lands on heads, I’ll let you go; if it lands on tails, I’ll hit you again,’ investigators have revealed that Armughan played with his victim’s life like a predator goes with prey. 

There were more vicious beatings as a result of the coin landing on tails twice. Armughan drove Mustafa to Hub, where his brutality increased. The injured boy was badly hurt and unable to fight back.

There, Armughan unlocked the car’s trunk and gave Mustafa one final teasing: “If you can save yourself, get up and run.” Mustafa, however, was barely conscious.

Then Armughan flipped the coin again, saying he would save Mustafa from being burnt alive if he lost again. However, like the previous two times, Mustafa lost. 

He admitted that Mustafa was still inside the car when he drove it from Khayaban-e-Mohafiz to Dareji and then set it on fire. Additionally, the suspect acknowledged using a rifle to fire three warning shots, none of which were directed at the victim.

 
Before locating Mustafa’s burned remains, investigators conducted a 130-kilometer search in the remote region.

Case summary: 

After Mustafa Amir was reported missing on January 6, his murder shocked Karachi. When his torched automobile was found in the Hub region of Balochistan, the case which had been first suspected of being a kidnapping took a terrible turn.

The presence of Mustafa’s remains within the car was verified by forensic evidence. Several people were arrested when police were able to link the incident to his own group of close friends. According to reports, the suspects were part of a planned conspiracy with power dynamics and personal grudges at play.

Sahir Hasan, the son of well-known actor Sajid Hasan, is among the suspects who have been taken into custody. His role in the case has increased public interest and sparked inquiries regarding the motives and histories of the perpetrators.

Investigators put together Mustafa’s final moments using CCTV footage, digital records, and witness accounts. Evidence indicated that the boy was led to a meeting under false pretenses, then attacked and kidnapped. Armughan’s confession has filled in many missing pieces, exposing not only a vicious murder but also the cruel psychological game that Mustafa had no chance of winning.

A Vehari man addicted to gambling lost a bet, then let the winner rape his wife, an English daily has reported. 

The man lost a high stake bet to two men, whom he then brought home. One of the men then raped his wife while also filming the assault. He threatened to post the footage online if the victim involved the police in the matter. 

Sahooka police station has registered a case against the two men who won the bet and the woman’s husband on her father’s complaint. 

While the FIR did not mention that the woman’s husband is a gambler. However, the victim and her father have told the media that his gambling has ruined their lives. 

None of the men have been apprehended till now.

A 22-year-old has been left in critical condition at the District Headquarters Teaching Hospital after being gang-raped by five men, a leading English daily has reported. 

The young girl had been lured by the main suspect on the pretext of providing her a job outside the country. 

The girl’s bones were broken during the assault and she also suffered internal injuries. Doctors have now referred her to Lahore for further treatment. 

The victim’s father told the police that the suspects fled from the scene when they found out that her condition was unstable. They also threatened to kill him if he went to the police. 

A senior police officer took notice of the case and immediately began a search for the suspects.

A newly-wed bride was abducted and beaten up by her nephews in Lodhran for “bringing shame to the family at this old age” after she got married at age 53, a news channel has reported. 

Nazir Khatoon of Qureshiwala in Lodhran married a man named Ramzan of her own will a short while before the incident. The two got married in a local court after getting permission from their children. 

Nazir Khatoon was a widow who had four adults children, all of whom are married. 

Ramzan told the channel that soon after the wedding, he and his wife left for Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah. Three days after they landed back in Pakistan, Nazir Khatoon’s nephews attacked her in their house, abducting her and beating her up. 

Police immediately raided the house of the suspects and recovered the woman. She was then transferred to the District Headquarters Hospital to treat her numerous injuries. 

Police have confirmed that a case has been registered against the suspects while one of them has already been arrested.

A medical board will supervise the investigation into the murder of 23-year-old Mustafa Amir, which will be overseen by a court magistrate. Officials have been tasked with obtaining DNA samples to determine the cause of death. Security measures have been reinforced, and investigating officer Muhammad Ali Noorani has been assigned to oversee security and logistics.

Armaghan, the key suspect, admitted to murdering Mustafa during interrogation the day before. Sharing the details, he recalled that Mustafa was still semi-conscious when his car caught fire. Armaghan acknowledged physically attacking him and firing three warning shots that did not strike him. He also indicated that if he had known the police were approaching his home earlier on February 8, the exchange of fire might have been prolonged.

Law enforcement officers have confirmed that his confession was recorded on tape.

Mustafa Amir went missing on January 6, and his mother received a ransom call weeks later. On January 12, Karachi police discovered an unidentified scorched body inside a burning automobile at the Hub checkpoint. The body was originally turned over to the Edhi Foundation for burial as an unclaimed case.

Further investigations revealed that Armaghan allegedly abducted and murdered Mustafa and had demanded Rs20 million in ransom from his parents. Following a gunfight, police arrested Armaghan and recovered Mustafa’s phone and other belongings from his residence, which served as crucial evidence. Another suspect, Shiraz Bukhari, was detained and provided evidence consistent with statements from Armaghan’s household staff.

Authorities have since uncovered Armaghan’s long criminal background, which includes narcotics trafficking, extortion, and other illegal activities. He was allegedly connected to a drug cartel and operated an illegal software company and phone centre that scammed overseas clients. Investigators also accuse Mustafa of narcotics distribution, as records show that he was charged on January 4 with supplying drugs in affluent Karachi neighbourhoods.

Armaghan’s father, Kamran Qureshi, has publicly defended his son, claiming Mustafa was a narcotics supplier. He also justified his son’s decision to open fire on the police during the raid, stating that it was to protect confidential data at his software company.

Following mismanagement of the case, three police officers were suspended for failing to make progress sooner. The victim’s mother accused police authorities of negligence and victim-blaming, prompting a formal investigation into their actions.

Officials are still probing into other possibilities, with DNA confirmation and forensic analysis critical in the next stages of the investigation.

The prime suspect in Karachi student Mustafa Amir’s murder has revealed shocking details during a four-day physical remand, a leading English newspaper reported on Thursday.

As per the details, prime suspect Armughan admitted that he personally drove the victim’s car from Khyaban-e-Momin in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) to the Daraji area in Balochistan, where Amir’s body was disposed of. 

He confessed that he had taken measures to cover his tracks before being apprehended, admitting to deleting all data from the laptop at his home.

Meanwhile, according to police records, Armughan has been implicated in multiple serious crimes since 2019, including terrorism, attempted murder, drug trafficking, and extortion. Over the years, he has faced charges at several police stations, including Darakhshan, Sahil, Gizri, Boat Basin, and with the ANF.

Speaking to a private media outlet today (Thursday), Karachi correspondent Kamil Arif alleged that Armughan and Mustafa had been associated with a drug cartel.

Commenting on sophisticated weapons recovered during a raid at the Armughan’s house recently, Arif claimed that the firearms are not available in the Pakistan market, hinting that the guns might have been brought from the dark web.

He went on to further claim that only selected individuals knew Armughan by his real name; the rest, including his servants, called him the “boss”. “He [Armughan] had hidden his identity,” Arif said.

When asked about the suspect’s father’s background, Kamil claimed that Armughan’s father had once been associated with a musical band.

As per media details, Armughan had been running an illegal software house and call centre from his home in Gizri. This illicit operation allegedly defrauded foreign clients of millions of dollars over the years. 

Bachelor Business Administration (BBA) student Mustafa had gone missing on January 6. The case came to light after the prime suspect opened fire at a team of the Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) — a specialised unit of the Karachi police responsible for tackling cases related to murder and extortion — during a raid at his residence in Karachi DHA earlier this month.

On Jan 12, police found an unidentified body in a torched car in Hub, which Balochistan police later handed over to the Edhi Foundation for burial. The unclaimed body was buried at the Edhi graveyard in Karachi on Jan 16.

Arif claimed that the grave is being exhumed tomorrow (Friday) to collect DNA samples for matching with Amir’s mother.

Father of the primary accused in the abduction and murder case of Karachi’s 23-year-old Mustafa Amir has defended his son Armughan, saying that he was right to open fire at police to protect his property.

Speaking to a private media outlet, Kamran Qureshi went on to accuse the victim of supplying drugs to his son, and denied all charges by law enforcement regarding Armughan’s involvement in the murder case.

On allegations of opening fire at the police during a raid, Qureshi said that his son ran a software house and could not afford losing sensitive data on his laptops to people he could not trust. “Are we nuts?” the murder accused’s father added while casting doubts on the sincerity of the police in protecting people.

To a question by the reporter, the murder accused’s father said that Armughan and Mustafa used to “party together” and the latter recurrently sold him “five grams of dope for Rs250,000”.

He, however, clarified that the two were not childhood friends.

To the details surrounding the case and the confession by his son’s alleged accomplice Shavez Bukhari aka Shiraz, Qureshi said that anyone could be forced to say anything under duress.

He also levelled serious accusations on the victim’s father, claiming that he had “found out” the “details” after getting to know about the incident.

Separately, three police officers were suspended and demoted for mishandling the kidnapping and murder case of the 23-year-old.

Amir was abducted from DHA on Jan 6, and his family received a ransom call two weeks later. During the investigation, police arrested Armughan after a shootout, who claimed that the youth was murdered by his friends.

Armughan was later sent on remand by an anti-terrorism court, while police presented another suspect, Shiraz, in court, seeking his custody for interrogation.

On Jan 12, police found an unidentified body in a torched car in Hub, which Balochistan police later handed over to the Edhi Foundation for burial. The unclaimed body was buried at the Edhi graveyard in Karachi on Jan 16.

Speaking to a private media outlet, Deputy Inspector General of Police (South) Syed Asad Raza said that “three officers were suspended after they failed to achieve any breakthrough in the case”.

In a video statement released on social media, the victim’s mother said SSP Investigation Ali Hassan was “guilty of victim blaming and failing to take action for 20 days”.

In response, the DIG acknowledged the video and said that an inquiry would be conducted into the allegations.

According to two orders issued by DIG South, SHO Abdul Rasheed Pathan and SIO Zulfiqar Ahmed of Darakhshan police station were reverted to the substantive rank of assistant sub-inspectors.

Whereas, investigation officer ASI Iftikhar Ahmed from the same station was reverted to head constable, pending inquiry/departmental proceedings into their conduct in connection with the Mustafa Amir kidnapping case.

Famous Sindhi poet Akash Ansari’s mysterious death in a burning incident was not accidental, police have confirmed to media outlets. 

The 69-year-old poet was found dead when his home, located in Hyderabad’s Citizen Colony, caught fire. 

Citing the initial findings of their investigations, police have told Geo News that the poet was killed before being burnt. 

While the police had questioned the poet’s adopted son Latif Akash, they expressed doubt about his involvement but acknowledged that the two had unresolved issues. 

Latif has said that his father was sleeping when a fire broke out in his room around 8:30 am. 

However, Akash’s cousin Jan Mohammad Ansari revealed that the poet had filed an FIR against Latif in 2024, alleging that he was a drug addict and had threatened to harm his father. Police have said that the father and son decided to come to amicable terms after the FIR was filed. 

Dr Ilmuddin Ansari, a friend of Akash’s, has alleged that the poet’s burnt body showed signs of assault. 

The body was taken to his hometown of Badin for burial, before being brought back to a hospital in Hyderabad for autopsy. 

Police are looking into the possibility of an electric shirt circuit in the wiring of the room as a probable cause of the fire. They have confirmed that Latif was present in the house when the fire broke out in his father’s room, upon which he called Rescue officials and asked neighbours for help. 

Akash Ansari, whose real name was Dr Allah Bux, was buried on Sunday at his ancestral graveyard Sheikh Umar, in district Badin. 

Police are continuing to investigate the matter.

New details in the Mustafa Amir murder case reveal that the undergraduate student was killed and burned following a dispute over a girl of foreign nationality.

Police officials say that Armughan, the accused, and Mustafa were friends, and the two had an argument on New Year’s Eve. Following the argument, Armughan threatened to kill Mustafa along with the girl they were reportedly fighting over.

According to the investigating authorities, on January 6, the accused tortured Mustafa, while the girl went abroad on January 12. Interpol is trying to bring her back, as her statement is necessary for the case.

Police officials say that murder charges were added to the case after the body was found.

Karachi police said on Friday that they found the body of Mustafa Amir in his car, both of which had been badly burnt, near the Hub check post. 

Amir, a BBA student who went missing on January 6, had been the subject of a significant search effort by the Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC). “Amir was taken in this car to Hub check post where [prime suspect] Armughan set it on fire,” the police said. 

A senior police official said in a press conference that recovering Amir’s mobile phone and other items from Armughan’s home were a turning point in the investigation. Inspector General Muqqadas Haider of the CIA said that Amir’s mother received a ransom call on January 6. He confirmed that another suspect named Shiraz Bukhari alias Shavez over suspicion of being involved in the case. 

Shavez’s murder had led to the discovery of the timeline of the abduction and murder. He is a close friend of Armughan.  “Shavez’s admission corroborated statements of Armughan’s servants who were detained for questioning by the police in which they admitted that Amir came to their house on January 6 and was shot dead after a fight erupted between them,” he said.

Balochistan police had handed over the body to a welfare organisation for its burial as an unidentified body.

Previously, police officials revealed that Mustafa was kidnapped by  Armaghan, who, also in his early 20s, demanded ransom a month later.

As the alleged kidnapper demanded Rs20 million, the case was taken over by the Anti Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) for investigation.

Further investigation revealed that Mustafa also had a criminal record, with a drug trafficking case registered against him on January 4, 2025. He was accused of supplying weed in posh areas of the port city.

As police raided a bungalow in Defence on February 8, the accused, Armaghan, was arrested and a large quantity of drugs was recovered from his possession.

Armaghan confessed that Mustafa’s body was dumped in the city’s Malir area, police said, adding that it had not yet been recovered. Further investigation is underway as police search for other possible suspects.