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  "path": "/news/1975884/karachi-atc-frames-charges-against-armaghan-co-accused-sheraz-in-mustafa-amir-murder-case",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-26T07:29:24.000Z",
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    "Pakistan",
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    "_final charge sheet_",
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  "textContent": "KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday framed charges against main suspect Armaghan Qureshi and co-accused Sheraz alias Shavez Bukhari in the Mustafa Amir murder case.\n\nAmir, 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 accused stuffed Amir’s body in the trunk of his car and _torched_ it in the Hub area of Balochistan.\n\nBoth accused denied the charges before the court, which also summoned witnesses and adjourned the hearing until March 12.\n\nA _final charge sheet_ against Armaghan in the murder case was filed in August 2025.\n\nIn the document, Investigating Officer (IO) Muhammad Ali had said that the last known location of the victim and the two suspects was Armaghan’s house in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority (DHA).\n\nThe IO stated that blood collected from Armaghan’s house allegedly matched samples taken from the body recovered from the car in Hub.\n\nThe report claimed that CCTV footage had been recovered showing the individuals cleaning Mustafa’s bloodstains from a carpet.\n\nIn the wake of the murder, three junior police officers, including the Darakhshan station house officer (SHO), were suspended and demoted to lower ranks over their “unprofessional conduct” while probing the kidnapping and murder case.\n\nHowever, then-Sindh inspector general Ghulam Nabi Memon had defended senior police officials responsible for the investigation, saying they did face certain “handicaps” due to a host of factors during the initial probe.\n\nLast month, a Karachi judicial magistrate granted Armaghan post-arrest bail in a case involving an illegal call centre and credit card data theft.\n\n## Other cases\n\nBesides the murder case, Armaghan is facing several other charges.\n\nArmaghan had been implicated in a _data theft case_ in a first information report (FIR) registered with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on April 16, 2025.\n\nThe case accused Armaghan of operating an “illegal call centre” in Karachi’s DHA, which was used for harassment, fraudulent activities, identity impersonation, cheating, spoofing, phishing, and extortion.\n\nIn July 2025, the IO of the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) informed a judicial magistrate that Armaghan had _rented two properties_ to set up call centres in Lahore and Islamabad after Amir’s murder.\n\nCases had previously been filed against him for injuring policemen during a February 2025 shoot-out that led to his arrest, as well as for the recovery of imported illegal weapons and money laundering.",
  "title": "Karachi ATC frames charges against Armaghan, co-accused Sheraz in Mustafa Amir murder case"
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