KARACHI: Police has made major breakthroughs in the Mustafa abduction and murder case, recovering the murder weapon and securing a chilling confession from key suspect, Armaghan.

According to investigation officials, the prime suspect, who is currently with police in physical remand, has revealed harrowing details of how he brutally tortured and later burned Mustafa alive.

During interrogation, Armaghan said that on January 6 he called the victim and Shiraz Bukhari - the other suspect alias Shavez - to his bungalow, where he launched a vicious assault on Mustafa, using an iron rod to beat him for two hours. Investigators confirmed that the rod was later recovered from the guard room of Armaghan’s house in Defence’s Khayaban-e-Momin. They said that Mustafa sustained severe injuries, with heavy bleeding from the head and knees. The prime suspect admitted that he was intoxicated at the time of the assault.

He revealed that Shiraz, his accomplice, attempted to stop him when Mustafa started bleeding excessively. However, after the brutal beating, both suspects loaded Mustafa into his own vehicle and drove towards Hub. Upon reaching Hub, Armaghan opened the car’s boot and discovered that Mustafa was still alive. He then doused him and the car in petrol and mockingly challenged him to escape, knowing that his severe knee injuries had rendered him immobile. Despite Mustafa’s feeble attempts to move, he was unable to flee. The suspect confessed that he then set Mustafa on fire. Armaghan also disclosed that immediately after igniting the flames, Shiraz urged him to flee the scene. The two suspects then made their way back to Karachi by hitchhiking in different vehicles.

Following Armaghan’s confession, Karachi police raided his bungalow and retrieved the iron rod used in the assault. The investigations revealed that the prime suspect had been running an outbound call centre to defraud people in the United States by offering them domestic services and stealing their money through the fraudulent business.