KARACHI: Police in Karachi arrested a man on Tuesday who was reported to have been behind the brutal murders of two women.
The man, who was arrested by Jamshed Quarter Police, was identified as Muhammad Rafiq, a rickshaw driver and resident of Sukkur.
He had reportedly picked women and taken them to his house to murder them and dismembered their bodies. The body parts were found from different parts of the city including Soldier Bazaar and Guru Mandar.
One of the victims, whose body parts were found in the Guru Mandar area, has been identified as Nasreen, a mother of 4 and resident of Quaidabad.
On March 10, Nasreen’s body was found near the Guru Mandar area and the police was said to have closed the file. On April 10, 11 and 12 when more female body parts were found around the city, the police were forced to revisit the case and PPP representative Faryal Talpur took personal notice of the incidents, directing IG Sindh to make arrangements to arrest the offender immediately and find out the identity of the second woman.
Rafiq had initially denied any involvement in the incidents but had later admitted he had murdered three women and had also served time in prison earlier for the murder of another woman. Police also found tools that Rafiq had used to dismember the victims after he had murdered them.
Inspector General (IG) East Tahir Navaid said that there was no clear reason as to why the murderer had carried out the acts, but attributed them to mental instability.
Rafiq was later presented in front of the media by the police. He said that he strangled the women to kill them and had used a knife to dismember the bodies.
He said that there was no motive behind the killings, adding that he had “lost his mind” when he carried out the acts.
Correction: The name of one of the victims was incorrect in an earlier version of this article.
The killer was involved in the murder of two women and not three.
The corrections have been made.
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Not shocked. Not at all. I'm a writer and recently carried out a personal research on serial killers. Pakistan is lagging behind in serial killing (lol) if compared to america. One good point, atleast. Believe me, american serial killers are way too horrid and sordid. Ted bundy, jeffrey dahmer, richard chase, richard cottingham, jack the ripper, loads more. Check out what they did and then criticize the Pakistani police!
It's DIG east there is no IG east!!
LPC (Lahore.Peshawar.Chitral)<------ what about these areas go search and you will find dozens of such people lying around everywhere.
I really do not trust the current government. Are they only going to find such people who are molesters? What about the hundreds of terrorists in the city roaming around freely? Will they ever be able to catch them? Our government is way to clever and can easily play with such fictious stories when everyone is ready to spread such burning issues like fire! Would any rickshaw driver say no to even Rs5,000 for a photograph session and to play the role of an actor for a day or two? No, they wont! My belief- these are all stories to cover up much other grave issues within our cities! And these news channels are the best way to diguise the whole country!
Women are not safe in Pakistan,women should avioide to travel alone or they should have weapon for self defence.
This is cheap reason that "i lost my mind" if he lost his mind why didn't he cut his own hand he raped the sad ladies and kill them to hide away from his crime.
The first time I am seeing the face of a captured killer in Pakistani media. Is it because he is a poor rikshaywalla psycopath with noone behind him? :)
I know this is out of context, but technically he is not a serial killer. According to definition, a serial killer is a person who kills three or more people one at a time. This psychopath murdered two. Forgive me, I watch too much Dexter (The TV show).
He looks like inspired by DEXTER, but he is murdering innocents :(
The murderer seem to have watched Christian Bale's American Psycho quite recently.
hang him in public
These criminal must be given brutal punishment. His whose family must be sterilized. These genetically inferior people are destroying Pakistan.
Insane !
This is horrible. PTI will come and stop such blatant crimes.
the police shud be thnkd and appreciatd for their effort all the media reports are the flaws
"Lost my mind". ..... it doesn't appear like that ...
The murders seem to have been carried out quite methodically. A sex starved, or love-deprived, mind might be at work!!
seriously ET. Nasreen Zoja Sharif , from the roznamcha it means Nasreen wife of Sharif.
No motive to kill??? Doesn't make sense, did police catch the right guy or putting blame on some poor person?
The IG 'saahib' should know better than brand the self confessed killer mentally instable prior to any authenticated medical certificate. I think its carelessness like these on part of the investigators that loopholes are exploited and criminals don't get due punishment.
Okies good! thats really good!!! now he deserves to be cut into eight pieces and thrown all across the city..................................
Well done Ms. Faryal Talpur :)
But i remember earlier reportings say that the body parts were seen thrown out of a white corrolla! more than one people seems involved here, and may be a game of escape goats underway!
OMG ! hang this murderer !