Mustafa Amir | Pakistan

A judicial magistrate in Karachi on Monday granted post-arrest bail to Armaghan Qureshi, the prime suspect in the Mustafa Amir murder case, in a case involving an illegal call centre and credit card data theft. Amir, 23, was allegedly kidnapped and murdered by his friends — Armaghan and Sheraz — in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority (DHA) on Jan 6, 2025. According to the police, the youth’s friends stuffed his body in the trunk of his car and torched it in the Hub area of Balochistan. A final charge sheet against Armaghan in the murder case was filed in August. Besides multiple other cases, Armaghan had also been implicated in the data theft case in a first information report (FIR) registered with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on April 16, 2025. Judicial magistrate (South) took up Armaghan’s bail plea today. Advocate Khurram Abbas appeared as his defence counsel and informed the court that the investigation against the suspect had been completed in 2025. “Not a single shred of evidence was presented...

The prosecution on Wednesday submitted all forensic reports in the anti-terrorism court hearing of the high-profile kidnapping and murder case of Karachi youth Mustafa Amir.

A sessions court in Karachi on Friday handed over Armaghan Qureshi, the prime suspect in the Mustafa Amir murder case, to the Cyber Crime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on a five-day physical remand.