- Amir’s mom Wajeeha confirms stays belong to her son.
- SIU launches crackdown in reference to Armaghan medicine case.
- FIA examine Armaghan’s connections to cash laundering.
The preliminary DNA profiling report has confirmed that the human stays recovered through the exhumation on the Edhi Cemetery on Friday belonged to Mustafa Amir, who was allegedly murdered after his disappearance in January.
The charred human stays — discovered by police in a automotive close to the Hub checkpost on January 12 and buried by the Edhi Basis on January 16 — had been exhumed on Friday by a three-member medical board beneath the supervision of a judicial Justice of the Peace.
The case pertains to the alleged kidnapping and homicide of the teenager, a BBA scholar, who had gone lacking on January 6, 2025. The entire saga unfolded after Armaghan opened fireplace at a crew of the Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) — a specialised unit of the Karachi police liable for tackling circumstances associated to homicide and extortion — throughout a raid at his residence in Karachi’s DHA earlier this month.
After the affirmation of the physique’s id, it was handed over to the household, who would maintain a funeral after the Asr prayers immediately (Sunday) at Masjid-e-Ali, Major Khayaban-e-Muhafiz, Part VI, DHA.
Mustafa’s grieving mom Wajeeha additionally confirmed that the stays recovered through the exhumation belonged to her son. The physique had been stored on the Edhi morgue after the exhumation.
In the meantime, the Particular Investigation Unit (SIU) has launched a crackdown in reference to the Armaghan medicine case, arresting a suspect recognized as Sahir Hassan, son of a famend tv actor.
SIU chief SSP Shoaib Memon confirmed the arrest, saying that Hassan was arrested at his residence in Defence with half a kilogramme of the drug Veet. He identified that that is the primary arrest within the case however extra are anticipated quickly.
SSP Memon clarified that whereas the suspects had been concerned in large-scale medicine commerce and consumption, there isn’t any indication of hyperlinks to worldwide networks or darkish net operations. “Medication had been being dealt at a big degree, however to not the extent of a world syndicate.”
It’s price mentioning that the Mustafa Amir homicide case is being investigated by the Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC), which falls beneath the Prison Investigation Company (CIA), whereas the investigation into the drug-related actions of prime suspect Armaghan has been assigned to the SIU, which additionally falls beneath the CIA.
The inquiry into the massive cache of weapons recovered from Armaghan’s home and their doable use in legal actions, and their legality and licences has been handed over to the Counter Terrorism Division.
Furthermore, the Federal Investigation Company (FIA) is being concerned in investigating Armaghan’s connections to digital forex, cash laundering and name centre operations.
The 2 suspects, Armaghan and Sheraz, who was complicit in allegedly killing and later disposing off the teenager’s physique, are at the moment beneath interrogation in police custody. The police had acquired a five-day extension within the bodily remand of the suspects.
Sheraz’s assertion
A video assertion of co-accused Sheraz, who was arrested within the Mustafa Amir case, has as soon as once more solid doubts on Mustafa’s reason behind dying.
As per the preliminary statements by the suspects, Armaghan had crushed Mustafa with a rod at his residence after which each him and Sheraz had shifted the critically injured youth to his automotive and drove him to Hub, Balochistan, earlier than burning him alive with the automotive.
In a latest assertion circulating on completely different media, Sheraz explicitly claimed that Mustafa was nonetheless alive when he was crushed on the bungalow and put within the automotive.
He mentioned that had the sufferer obtained instant medical consideration or been taken to a hospital, he might need survived. Nevertheless, after a three-and-a-half-hour drive to Balochistan, the automotive was set on fireplace with Mustafa inside.
Sheraz additionally talked about that earlier than setting the automotive on fireplace, Armaghan briefly opened and closed the trunk.
Based on him, Armaghan took solely a second to take action.
His assertion that it took solely a second to open and shut the trunk means that it might have been practically inconceivable for Armaghan himself to find out whether or not Mustafa was acutely aware, unconscious or already lifeless.
Then again, police initially relied on postmortem and chemical examinations following the exhumation, hoping to ascertain if Mustafa was alive when the automotive was set on fireplace.
Nevertheless, that hope has now diminished, because the exhumation board confirmed that the physique was so severely burnt that figuring out the precise reason behind dying was practically inconceivable. Because of this, the investigation stays at a standstill, with the authorities left solely with speculations concerning the circumstances of Amir’s dying.