Most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan

top 10 Most famous unsolved murder cases in the history of Pakistan

Lets have a glance over unsolved murder cases in pakistan:

1.Benazir Bhutto’s Murder

Most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan

On December 27, 2007, murder of Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan occurred in Rawalpindi. She was campaigning ahead of elections scheduled for January 2008. She was in a political rally at Liqaut National Garden when shots were fired at her and a suicide bomb was detonated immediately following the shooting. She died in Rawalpindi General Hospital. In the suicidal attack twenty four other people lost their lives. She had previously survived a similar attempt on her life in Karachi in which 139 people lost their lives.

Cause of Death

Interior Ministry suggested many reasons behind the death of Benazir Bhutto. Even the senior members of Pakistan People’s Party were not on the same page in this regard. One of Pakistani doctors who treated Bhutto said that Pakistani Authorities took Bhutto’s medical record immediately after her death. They also told the doctor to stop talking about this case. It is fact the crime scene was cleared before any forensic examination could be completed. Unfortunately no formal autopsy was performed before burial. Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir’s husband did not allow a formal autopsy to be conducted. Even Scotland Yard could not conclude the actual cause of her death. Some people still say that the death was due to gunshot and many people say that it was due to bomb blast which resulted in the fracture of her skull.

Responsibility

1-Al-Qaeda commander Mustafa Abu Al-Yazdi claimed responsibility for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on December 27, 2007.

2-CIA Director Michael Hayden claimed that Mehsud and his network were responsible for Benazir’s assassination.

3-On October 2016, Benazir Bhutto wrote a letter to Musharraf. Benazir Bhutto named four persons involved in an alleged plot to kill her: Ijaz Shah, the current IB Chief of that time, Arbab Ghulam Rahim, former chief minister of Sindh, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, the former chief minister of Punjab and General Hamid Gul, the former ISI Chief, as those who posed a threat to her life.

4-Emails from Benazir Bhutto saying she would blame General Musharraf for her death if she were killed. Scotland on Sunday quoted MI5 sources saying that ISI’s factions may be responsible for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

5-Benazir sent a secret email to Foreign Secretary David Milliband and anticipated that three senior allies of President Musharraf were out to killer her.

6-Many people are in the view that Benazir Bhutto’s husband Asif Ali Zardari is behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

It is still one of most famous unsolved murder cases in the history of Pakistan. No one knows who was behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto: Asif Ali Zardari, Mehsud, ISI, Musharraf, Al-Qaida, Hamid Gul, Arbab Ghulam Raheem, Chaudhry Pevaiz Elahi or former IB chief Ijaz Shah? It is one of the 1st most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan.

2.General Muhammad Zia- ul –Haq’s Murder

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General Muhammad Zia ul Haq was born in the year 1924. He was the president of Pakistan and the Chief of Army Staff at the time of his death. He died in a mysterious C-130 plane crash on August 17, 1988. High-profile civilian and military personnel also lost their lives in the crash. Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Akhtar Abdur Rehman, the US Ambassador to Pakistan Arnold Raphael and General Herbert M. Wassom, the head of the US military aid mission to Pakistan also lost their lives in the lethal crash.

US sent a team of US Air Force Officers to help Pakistan in the investigation. The investigations teams from US and Pakistan reached sharply different conclusions.

US Conclusions:

The Widows of late US Ambassador and late Brigadier General Wassom were told by US investigator that the crash occurred due to mechanical problem common with C-130. Investigator told them that a similar incident had occurred to a C-130 in Colorado which had narrowly avoided crashing. It was said there was hydraulic problem in the tail assembly in C-130 and Pakistani pilots did not have adequate skills to fly C-130.

Pakistani conclusions:

Pakistani investigator released a summary of a secret 365-page report some weeks after the crash. They revealed the possible problems with the aircraft’s elevator booster package and frayed or snapped control cables. Pakistani report concluded that the contamination of the elevator booster package might at worst have caused sluggish controls leading to over control but not to an accident. Pakistani investigators concluded that the crash was due to an act of sabotage. They said that the small explosive material was detected in mango seeds and a piece of rope found on the aircraft. It was also concluded that the use of a chemical agent to incapacitate the pilots and thus perpetuate the accident therefore remains a distinct possibility.

Theories

General Hameed Gul the Head of ISI suggested that US might be responsible for air crash. He further said that Pakistani president was killed in a conspiracy involving a foreign power. It was also suggested that CIA, MOSSAD or KGB were most likely to kill General Muhammad Zia Ul Haq. Many people were in the view that he was killed by anti- Zia group Al-Zulfikar led by Murtaza Bhutto, General Mirza Aslam Baig or Allama Ariful Hussaini the chief of the Tehrik Nifaz Fiqh-e Jafaria. The top generals of Pakistan military were also blamed for the assassination of General Zia. It is still one of most famous unsolved murder cases in the history of Pakistan. It is one of the 2nd most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan.

3.Murder of Liaquat Ali Khan’s Murder

Most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan

Liaquat Ali khan, the first prime minister of Pakistan was born on 1895. He was one of the leading founding fathers of modern Pakistan. He was a statesman, political theorist and lawyer. He served as the first Prime Minister of Pakistan. Liaquat Ali Khan was first Finance Minister and Defense Minister of India.

Murder

Liaquat Ali Khan was shot twice in the chest during a public meeting of the Muslim City League at Rawalpindi on October 16, 1951. A police officer immediately shot the assassin named Syed Akbar Babrak. Liaquat Ali Khan was rushed to a hospital and given a blood transfusion. He succumbed to his severe injuries. Syed Akbar was a professional assassin from Hazara and was an Afghan national. It is also said that the police officer who immediately killed Syed Akbar was also a part of that conspiracy.

Company Bagh was named Liaquat Bagh after his assassination. Liaquat Bagh is the same location where Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December 27, 2007. It is a proved fact that the cartridges recovered from Liaquat Ali Khan’s body were US made and the type of bullets used to kill him were in use by high ranked American officers.

It is also said that Governor General Ghulam Muhammad was behind Liaquat Ali Khan’s assassination. Some people say that Mushtaq Ahmed Gormani was behind the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan. USA State Department declassified documents. In the documents it was revealed that Americans murdered Liaquat Ali Khan through the Afghan government.

It is also said that USA asked Afghan government to kill Liaquat Ali Khan and in return promised to ensure Pashtoonistan’s freedom. What was the exact motive behind the assassination? It is still an unsolved mystery in the history of Pakistan. It is one of the 3rd most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan.

4.Hakim Muhammad Saeed’s Murder

Most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan

Hakim Muhammad Saeed was born on January 9, 1920. He was a great scholar and medical researcher. He also was a philanthropist and had been a Governor of Sindh, the second largest province in Pakistan. He was founder of Hamdard Foundation. He was the author of almost 200 books about medicines, health, natural medicines, philosophy and science. In the year 1998, he was assassinated by an unknown group of assailants in the way while he was going to Hamdard Laboratories. DIG Farooq Amin Qureshi, CCPO Karachi caught his murderers at that time. They were sentenced to death by the anti terrorism court. The killers were the workers of MQM. But it is still a mystery that who was the master mind of his murder and what was his purpose? Many people blamed Altaf Hussain for this murder but Altaf Hussain is denying as always. He left behind a daughter, Sadia Rashid. Now she is heading the Hamdard Foundation and the Hamdard Lab. It is one of the 4th most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan.

5.Osama Bin Ladin’s Murder

Most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan

Osama Bin Laden was the founder and head of Al-Qaeda. He was killed in Pakistan on 2nd May, 2011. US Navy SEALs of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group killed him in Abbotabad. US alleged that ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha knew of bin Laden’s presence in Abbotabad, Pakistan. Due To USA’s Shameful crimes committed in Muslim countries, he had become a worst enemy of America. He was also alleged for 9/11 attacks. American killed him and buried him in the sea which was not according to Islamic traditions.

Conspiracy Theories

The spontaneous burial of Osama bin Laden in the sea, the decision not to release his pictures and swift results of his DNA have led to the rise of conspiracy theories that Osama had not died in the raid in Abbotabad. It is also stated that he had been killed in early of Taliban-US war. It was just a drama played by US Army. Now the murder of Osama Bin Ladin is an unsolved mystery. It is not clear whether he was killed in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Whether he was buried in sea or not? Whether he was in Pakistan or not? International media is agreed on this point that he was in Pakistan when he was killed but still this murder is suspicious and regarded one of the most famous unsolved murder cases in the history of Pakistan. It is one of the 5th most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan.

6.Mus’haf Ali Mir’s murder

Most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan

Mus’haf Ali Mir was born on 5 March 1947. He was an influential statesman. He was a four star chief marshal. Mus’haf Ali Mir was sixteenth chief of Pakistan Air Force. He was serving from Nov. 20, 2000 until his accidental death in a planned plane crash happened on Feb. 20, 2003. When he was died, his age was only 55 years. He belonged to a middle class Kashmiri family. In the plane crash he lost his life along with his wife Bilquis Mir and 15 other officers on board. Their Fokker F-27 crashed during a routine flight to PAF Base Kohat. Two Principal Staff Officers, Abdul Razzaq (Air vice Marshal, Training) and Saleem Nawaz (Air vice Marchal, Administration). Pakistani government told the cause that the crash was due to pilot error and adverse weather conditions.

Conspiracy Theories

An investigation journalist Gerald Posner says that the death of Mir was not an accident. It was an act of sabotage. He claimed this in his book “Why America Slept”? He writes about the failure to prevent 9/11, that Osama struck a deal with Pakistani ISI through Mus’haf Ali Mir to get protection and arm supplies for Al-Qaeda in 1996. The secret meeting was blessed by Saudi Arabia through Prince Turki Bin Faisal Al Saud. He was the Saudi Intelligence Chief. But the situation changed after the invasion of USA on Afghanistan. After the U-turn of Saudi and Pakistani Governments, three Saudi princes associated with the deals died within days. After the seven months of this incident, Mus’haf Ali Mir’s plane crashed near the Pak-Afghan border. Turki Bin Faisal was removed as intelligence chief. He was sent as Ambassador to UK during this time. It is said that America and General Musharraf managed to kill him because he was a great set back in the agreement of using Pakistani airport by American Air Force to invade Afghanistan. This murder is still one of the most famous and unsolved murder cases in the history of Pakistan. It is one of the 6th most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan.

7.Omar Asghar Khan’s murder

Most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan

Omar Asghar Khan was born on July 3, 1953. He was a talented Pakistani economist. He was a social and political scientist. He was a brilliant professor of Philosophy, Economics and Politics at Quaid-eAzam University. He was also the founder of Qaumi Jamhoori Party. Omar Asghar Khan was the son of Air Marshal (retd) Muhammad Ashghar Khan and Amina Shamsi. He did his M.phill in Economics from the University of Cambridge. He also worked as Federal Minister under General Pervaiz Musharraf’s interim government. He died just a week before his 49th birthday. Omar Asghar was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his brother in-law residence in Karachi on June 25, 2002. His family continues to insist he was murdered. Authorities were insisting that his death a suicide. He was buried at his family graveyard in Abbotabad. He was a most talented and honest politician. It is one of the 7th most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan.

He was investigating misuse of EOBI funds. It is also said that his investigation led him to the fact that these funds had been used and misused by a Pakistani Top secret agency. He was killed by the mentioned agency and his murder was painted as suicide. All these are hypothesis. It is still a mystery that who killed him? He was not a psycho patient and was not undergoing any mental disorder which could lead him to suicide. Therefore it was a murder but it is an unsolved one of unsolved murder cases in the history of Pakistan. No one knows why and by whom he was killed.

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8.Ehsan Elahi Zaheer’s Murder

Most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan

Allama Ehsan Elahi Zaheer was born on May 31, 1945. He was a Pakistani Islamic theologian and leader of the Ahl al-Hadith movement. Ehsan Elahi Zaheer studied at Jamia Islamiyya Guranwala and at Jamia Salafiyyah in Faisalabad. He also studied at Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia he studies under Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani and Abbd-al Aziz Ibn abd-Allah Ibn-Bazz. He had been the adviser of Islamic affairs to General Muhammad Zia ul Haq. He was giving speech when a bomb planted on the stage exploded killing Allama Ehsan Elahi Zaheer. 18 other people also lost their lives. 114 were seriously injured due to that lethal explosion. He initially survived the blast and after initial treatment in Pakistan he was transferred to Saudi Arabia for further treatment. On March 30, 1987 he died in Riyadh Hospital in Saudi Arabia. It is one of the 8th most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan.

9.Mustafa Zaidi’s Murder

Most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan

Mustafa Zaidi was a most talented CSP officer and was a well known poet. He was born in Illahabad, India on Oct. 16 1930. He is believed to have been murdered in an apartment in Karachi where he was residing. He was found dead alongside Shahnaz Gul on Oct. 12 1970. Shahnaz Gul was a popular socialite girl. She was initially charged with murder. He died in the age of 39. Shahnaz Gul was the subject of his several poems. About the untimely death of Mustafa Zaidi, there are two different views. According to the first view, Mustafa Zaidi was poisoned by Shahnaz Gul. On the other hand, it is said that Mustafa Zaidi had committed suicide. No one is sure what actually was happened on that fateful night? There is no convincing evidence for his murder or suicide. This is still an unsolved mystery. Mustafa Zaidi Had also predicted his death in one of his couplet:

He was a genius poet. He had been appreciated by many literary stalwarts including Josh Maleehabadi and Firaq Gorakhpuri. The suicidal or murder case created bold headlines in the newspaper as it was a high profile case. This case is discussed whenever Mustafa Zaidi’s poetry is discussed. It is amazing that he had tried to commit suicide four times before his ambiguous death. It is one of the 9th most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan.

10.Wali Khan Babar’s murder 

Most famous unsolved murder cases in Pakistan

Wali Khan Babar was a Pakistani Journalist. He was born on April 5, 1982 and did master in international relations from University of Karachi. He was working with GEO News. He was killed by gunmen in the Liaquatabad area of Karachi. Although his murderers have been sentenced to death by the court but it is still a mystery that who was the master mind of his murder? Many intelligence agencies have concluded that Altaf Hussain and Babar Ghori were the master mind of this murder conspiracy. They are denying. It is the saddest fact of this sad story that all the eyewitnesses of Wali’s murder had been murdered in cold blood one by one. His lawyer was also killed. Wali left behind a widow mother, four brothers and three sisters. Although the puppet murderers have been caught and sentenced to death by the court but the actual murderers have not yet been caught in spite of having adequate information about them.

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