Investigators have alleged that the Mustafa murder case‘s victim and suspect Sahir Hasan were among major drug dealers as a judicial magistrate remanded the TV actor’s son into police custody.

The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of police presented Sahir in court on Monday after completing his physical remand. The court granted a one-day extension to the suspect’s remand at the request of the investigative authorities, ordering that he be brought back to court tomorrow (Tuesday).

Investigative officials stated that the process of gathering evidence for the Mustafa Amir murder case was ongoing and the Federal Investigation Agency has also joined the investigation. The FIA would look into aspects related to money laundering and cybercrime while the SIU was focusing on drug-related actions.

Sources said that the investigation has uncovered the involvement of an international drug network.

Investigative officials stated that the suspect has confessed during questioning that he met the deceased, Mustafa, through another suspect named Armaghan. To gather further evidence, the suspect’s call data records have also been obtained.

The investigation is also examining whether there is any connection between the murder and drug-related activities. The investigative team has expedited the process of collecting additional evidence and is pursuing the investigation from multiple angles.

Investigation reveals major drug dealers in Karachi linked to dark web

Investigators have alleged Mustafa Amir, Sahir Hasan, and Usman Swati were among the major drug dealers in Karachi.

A person based in Islamabad was ordering drugs through the dark web while the international cartels drugs were being delivered to Lahore and Islamabad via consignments, they said and added that such drugs were then transported to Karachi through “courier companies.”

Three types of allegedly cannabis are sold in Karachi, with Mustafa dealing in “Jungle Boy,” Sahir managing “Gelato and Mamila,” and Usman handling “Iranian Weed.”

Investigators claimed that Mustafa has been murdered while Usman died in a road accident, leaving Sahir to run the network alone.

The suspects were in contact with each other through social media platforms, they added.

Suspect Sahir allegedly informed authorities that he holds a BBA degree and was fluent in both Urdu and English. He mentioned that he got married two months ago.

Sahir stated that “he has been using cannabis for 13 years and has been selling drugs for the past two years, operating the business alongside his associates, Bazil and Yahya.”

According to investigators, he disclosed that he receives “drugs at home via TCS and LCS, ordering cannabis worth Rs400,000 to Rs500,000 every week.” He allegedly sold one gram of cannabis for Rs10,000 and managed to sell 1,200 grams monthly, primarily in cash. “When the amount is significant, he transfers money from his father’s manager, Mukaram’s account. Sahir Hasan revealed that he has 12 clients, one of whom is also named Armaghan.”

What do we know so far about the Mustafa murder case?

The Mustafa murder case is one of the top stories on news channels nowadays. It is a case of the kidnapping and killing of a 23-year-old Karachi resident.

One has to be careful while reporting such news as the choice of words, style of presentation, and thumbnails on YouTube videos often build opinions even before the court announces its judgement in the case. So, in this case, it is of great importance to gather all the available information with background and listen to all versions of the story to report it.

The following text is sourced from the police investigation and interrogation reports, court decisions, and people related to the Mustafa murder case.

Mustafa Amir, a DHA resident, was allegedly abducted on January 6, but the case made headlines when the Sindh policemen addressed a press conference next month. Six days later, the Balochistan Police recovered a charred body in a torched car and handed over it to the Edhi Foundation.

In a media talk on February 14, police claimed that his friends killed the kidnapped youth. They allegedly stuffed the body in the trunk of his car and torched it in Balochistan’s Dureji area. Police also claimed to have arrested the prime suspect’s friend, Sheraz aka Shavez Bukhari. It was Sheraz who disclosed the information during the investigation.

The prime suspect Armaghan was arrested during a raid bungalow in DHA following a ransom call to the family. Suspects allegedly demanded Rs20 million from the victim’s family. Sources within the police say the gun battle with the suspect continued for four hours.

They took laptops from the house and blood samples were found on a carpet in a room. As the case unfolded, investigators claimed that the conflict between the two started because of a woman. The victim’s mother also accused the same girl of killing her son in a video statement. She claimed that the woman fled to the United States after the incident.

On February 15, an anti-terrorism court in Karachi sent Shiraz to police custody on physical remand till February 21. Police failed to get physical remand of the prime suspect, drawing officials’ ire. A legal expert clarified that the criticism against the court for not granting a physical remand was not appropriate as the police did not seek a physical remand in the first information report related to the case.

He told Aaj News’ programme Dus that the case would come under the jurisdiction of the ATC after the addition of Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (punishment for acts of terrorism) to the FIR.

On the same day, three police officers were suspended from their duty for their apparent negligence in the case.

The prime suspect was a “habitual offender,” police records showed. Complaints against him alleged that he was involved in extortion, kidnapping, drug dealing, and illegal possession of weapons.

When an Aaj News correspondent visited the suspect’s house, he saw that there was a high-tech facility in the house which was apparently used as a “software house.” Moreover, Kamran Qureshi, the suspect’s father, defended his son’s gun battle with the police and denied accusations. He accused the victim of selling drugs to his son and blamed a “police officer” for the “entire conspiracy.”

On February 17, a judicial magistrate approved a request for the exhumation of Mustafa’s body. Later, a three-member medical panel was formed by the judicial magistrate (West).

The next day, an ATC in Karachi sent the prime suspect to police custody on a four-day remand and sought a medical report.

An interrogation report claimed that the victim and the prime suspect were childhood friends. It was a reiteration of the account Shiraz told to police about the incident.

On February 20, Armaghan allegedly confessed to killing the victim as the chilling details of the report claimed that he offered the victim a “chance to escape before setting him on fire.” The charred vehicle in which Mustafa was allegedly burnt to death was present in Balochistan’s Durerji, Aaj News saw.

When Qureshi appeared on Imran Sultan’s show Dus, he claimed to have substantial evidence and advised to close the case or else “big names” would come to the limelight.

“I want to be the chief investigation officer of my child. I have plenty of evidence. I am a law graduate and hold a firearm licence,” he said while appearing on the show on February 21, 2025.

On February 22, an ATC extended the physical remand of suspects Armaghan and Sheraz by five days. The investigating officer claimed that two blood samples from the suspect’s house were collected and one of the blood samples was linked to a girl identified as ***a. He also informed the court about the money laundering allegations against the suspect

Furthermore, four persons, including a TV actor’s son, were arrested on Saturday. One of the suspects claimed to have sold drugs to Mustafa, according to sources within police.

Sources within the police said initial DNA testing of the samples taken from the body “confirmed that the person burned alive in Balochistan’s Dureji was indeed Mustafa Amir.”

The funeral prayers for the victim were offered at Masjid Ali, Khayaban-e-Mohafiz, DHA Karachi on February 23 as his father refused to take “diyat” (blood money).