Karachi police on Saturday claimed to have arrested two suspects, together with a person allegedly concerned within the assault of 100 boys over the previous 25 years.
Officers, citing lab findings, stated the boys had been lured and kidnapped between 2000 and 2025, and subjected to felony assault, principally within the Malir Nadi (riverbed) space.
East Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Investigation Muhammad Usman Sadozai instructed Daybreak that the police had acquired a laboratory report on “seven or eight instances of sodomy involving boys” that occurred between 2000 and 2025.
The medical reviews confirmed that the identical individual was concerned in these instances, as his DNA matched the samples, the SSP stated.
“The story of all sodomy instances was the identical,” stated SSP Sadozai.
He defined that the suspect used to kidnap minors aged between 10 and 14 years from completely different elements of Karachi between 6pm. and 12 am.
The suspect would then take the boy on a bike and topic him to felony assault in Malir Nadi, earlier than dropping him again on the identical location the place he was picked up, the SSP elaborated.
“We’re all engaged on this case.”
In an announcement issued by his workplace, Sindh IG Javed Akhtar Odho ordered that the held suspects be interrogated and all perpetrators concerned be dropped at justice.
Karachi Further IG Azad Khan, in an announcement, termed the safety of kids as the highest precedence and vowed the “strictest punishment underneath the legislation for the weather concerned in such a heinous act”.
The officer additionally introduced appreciation certificates and a money reward for the police group that made the arrest.
Investigation group
In the meantime, Karachi Further IG Azad Khan arrange an investigation group underneath the supervision of Crime Investigation Company (CIA) Deputy IG Muqaddus Haider for additional investigation into the assault instances.
Different members of the probe group embrace SSP Sadozai, Malir Investigation SSP Asif Raza, Korangi Investigation SSP Qais Khan and South Investigation SSP Syed Ali Hassan.
The seven sexual assault instances had taken place in Sharafi Goth, Zaman City, Korangi Industrial Space, Mehmoodabad and three in Defence.
The probe group was directed to make sure that concrete efforts are made to determine and arrest the suspects concerned within the incidents and to finish the investigation in all features with convincing proof.
The group may also co-opt any officer from inside the Karachi vary to help within the probe as per town police order. The group was instructed to submit a progress report each day.
Baby abuse unacceptable: CM Murad
In an announcement issued on the matter, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah warned that he wouldn’t tolerate any baby abuse instances.
Hailing the police efforts in arresting the suspect concerned “within the abuse of over 100 youngsters”, CM Murad termed it a “main success”.
“Solely seven victims have come ahead thus far. The police ought to find the remainder of the victims as properly,” the assertion quoted him as saying.
The Sindh CM directed the AIG to take the case to courtroom primarily based on proof and likewise sought progress reviews each day.
“Abuse in opposition to youngsters is unacceptable for the Sindh authorities,” he acknowledged.
Asserting that the provincial authorities had taken “many steps” to guard youngsters, CM Murad stated there was “no house for any beast within the metropolis”.
In September 2025, a judicial Justice of the Peace in Karachi recorded the confessional assertion of a suspected serial rapist in six instances pertaining to sexual assaults of underage women.
The prosecution stated the suspect was arrested from Qayyumabad on September 11, when the matter got here to the authorities’ consideration after one in all his alleged victims managed to acquire a USB drive from the suspect and took it to a video store.
The store proprietor detected the presence of specific content material on the drive and knowledgeable space residents, who apprehended the suspect and beat him up earlier than handing him over to the police.
Later the identical month, two males in Karachi confessed earlier than magistrates to raping a seven-year-old boy and murdering him.
