Published on, Sept. 27 -- September 27, 2025 1:08 PM

KARACHI - Two men accused of kidnapping and brutally murdering a seven-year-old boy in Landhi confessed to their crimes before a judicial magistrate on Friday. The court subsequently remanded them to jail.

The suspects, identified as Ahsan and Sohail Qureshi, were produced before the Judicial Magistrate (District East) after the expiry of their physical remand. Their confessional statements, recorded under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, detailed the harrowing sequence of events.

Ahsan admitted that he had "gone astray" and killed the child out of fear of being exposed after assaulting him. He told the court that he struck the boy with a concrete block, strangled him whil...