A significant breakthrough has emerged in the Mustafa Amir murder case, with an interrogation report on the prime suspect, Armaghan, now in police records.

Investigators have also uncovered that the accused is linked to 11 other criminal cases.

According to the report, Armaghan operated a call centre in a bungalow in Khayaban-e-Momin, where 30 to 40 employees worked.

The property also housed three illegally kept lion cubs. Further investigations reveal that customs officials had registered a case against Armaghan in 2019, but he was later released on bail.

The report also discloses that Armaghan had previous cases registered against him at Gizri, Clifton, Darakhshan, and Boat Basin police stations. His monthly earnings reportedly amounted to millions, and he was also a drug user.

One of Armaghan’s childhood friends, Shiraz, played a key role in the events leading to Mustafa Amir’s murder.

On New Year’s Eve, Armaghan hosted a party at his bungalow, attended by Shiraz, from midnight until 3am. A woman named Zuma was also present but left after a heated argument.

The following day, Mustafa Amir and Armaghan had a dispute over personal matters.

On January 5, Armaghan summoned Zuma and Shiraz again and allegedly assaulted Zuma with an iron rod before forcing her to leave in an online taxi, warning her against reporting the incident.

The situation escalated on the night of January 6 when Armaghan invited Shiraz again.

They used drugs before Mustafa Amir arrived at the bungalow around 9pm.

A fight broke out, and Armaghan allegedly attacked Mustafa Amir with an iron rod.

The report states that both Armaghan and Shiraz stripped Mustafa Amir of his clothes.

The suspects then planned to transport Mustafa Amir’s body in a car trunk to Hub. Two employees were ordered to clean the bloodstains, while Armaghan kept Mustafa Amir’s mobile phone, internet device, and clothes.

Armaghan took a petrol can from the bungalow and disposed of Mustafa Amir’s belongings along the way. According to the report, they reached Hub at 4:30am, doused the car with petrol, set it on fire, and fled on foot towards Karachi.

The suspects later stopped at a roadside hotel for breakfast. A few days later, Mustafa Amir’s mother questioned Armaghan about her son’s whereabouts, to which he falsely claimed that Mustafa Amir was staying with a friend named Nauman.

Suspicious of his response, Mustafa Amir’s mother pressed further, prompting Armaghan and Shiraz to flee to Islamabad.

According to the interrogation report, Armaghan returned to Karachi three days before police raided his bungalow. CCTV footage helped track him down, but when the officers arrived, he opened fire on them. After a prolonged standoff, police managed to arrest him.

Armaghan linked to 11 prior cases

Investigations have revealed that Armaghan has been involved in at least 11 criminal cases. The report states that in two of these cases, he was acquitted after reaching settlements. In 2019, he was accused of threatening a citizen at Sahil police station but was later released after a compromise.

A similar case was registered at Darakhshan police station for issuing death threats and firing shots outside a residence.

Another case at Gizri police station involved the alleged beating and fraud of a citizen over a vehicle sale dispute, for which the court has summoned Armaghan on March 15.

A case at Darakhshan police station accused him of firing at a water tanker and bursting its tires, which was later settled out of court.

A separate case at Boat Basin police station accused him of threatening a lawyer via mobile phone. In this case, he has already been declared a fugitive.

Additionally, at Darakhshan police station, he was booked for the kidnapping of Mustafa Amir.

At the AVCC police station, cases of attempted murder and an armed confrontation with police have been registered. Two more cases at the same station involved illegal weapons possession.

Armaghan is also facing two drug trafficking cases in the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) court, where he has been summoned on March 12 for allegedly attempting to smuggle drugs through a courier service.

As investigations continue, authorities are examining Armaghan’s broader criminal history while searching for other suspects connected to Mustafa Amir’s murder.

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][20], according to sources within police.

Sources within the police said [initial DNA testing of the samples][21] taken from the body “confirmed that the person burned alive in Balochistan’s Dureji was indeed Mustafa Amir.”