A close friend of Mustafa Amir and the main accused, Armaghan Qureshi, has made shocking claims about the suspect’s violent tendencies and past threats.
In a statement received by Aaj News, the friend alleged that Armaghan liked one of his female friends and had even threatened him because of her.
The friend, who was in Armaghan’s social circle, disclosed that he first met him four to five years ago through another friend, Sulaal Shah.
At that time, Armaghan was involved in importing and selling weed.
“I used to buy from him through Sulaal,” he added.
The statement further revealed that in late 2024, Armaghan contacted him and frequently invited him over to his house for drug use.
After Mustafa Amir went missing, Armaghan, along with Shiraz, travelled to Lahore in January and met the friend.
“When I mentioned Mustafa Amir’s disappearance, Shiraz seemed surprised and asked, ‘Who is Mustafa Amir?’ Armaghan quickly responded, ‘The one who used to sell weed.’”
The friend also stated that during their conversation, Armaghan kept blaming others for Mustafa Amir’s abduction.
The friend also claimed that Armaghan was extremely secretive about his business and avoided sharing details even with close acquaintances.
He added that once, during a gathering, he accidentally spilt water on Armaghan’s foot, prompting the suspect to slap him multiple times.
In light of these disturbing revelations, residents of DHA have formally requested authorities to evict Armaghan and his father from the neighbourhood.
In a letter addressed to officials, they expressed security concerns following the recent events.
Additionally, residents have urged action against Armaghan’s father, Kamran Qureshi, for alleged violations of DHA regulations.
They have demanded that the actual owner of Bungalow No. 35, where Armaghan resides, be identified and that Kamran Qureshi be forced to vacate the premises.
These latest disclosures add further complexity to the already high-profile murder case, as investigators continue to uncover shocking details of Armaghan’s past behaviour and criminal activities.
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.”
