A Century Of Murders

It was a cold night of December 30 and it was half past nine in the night. A crowded press conference was underway at the Punjab Police's CIA headquarters in Lahore where police officers were busy explaining how Pakistan's most wanted brutal killer escaped their capture. 

Just at that time, a rickshaw stopped in front of the Jang newspaper office on the busy Davies road in Lahore, from which no onan was the person who got off. The brl killer is the talk of the world, including Pakistan, in the last four weeks.The peculiarity of this case was that it was none other than this person who revealed the crime and now he came to arrest him of his own free will. 

When the man introduced himself to Munir Hussain at the reception office of the newspaper, there was silence for a few moments. That middle-aged man introduced himself and said: 'I am Javed Iqbal, the killer of a hundred children.'Why did Javed Iqbal come to the office of Jang newspaper to arrest him? Did he really kill a hundred children or was it something else? Javed Iqbal first reported his crime to whom? Was Javed Iqbal a mental patient hungry for fame or a brutal killer? 

Before going to the bottom of these questions, Javed takes a look at Iqbal's past, which led him to become Pakistan's most brutal serial killer. Javed Iqbal's diary, documents of the case including his letters and several personalities connected with it who could not be seen in public for various reasons before today. 

Muhammad Ali's family had to migrate from India after the partition of India, so they head to Lahore like millions of refugees. The substantial income from his iron pipe shop on Brandeth Road in Lahore was sufficient for Muhammad Ali's large family of five sons and four daughters.Javed Iqbal was also one of Muhammad Ali's children but was somewhat different. Javed Iqbal's elder brother Zia-ul-Haq told the BBC that 'Javed was a stubborn, argumentative and fanatical child since childhood. He used to obey every legitimate and illegitimate thing. If the father refused to do anything, he would threaten him. 

As Javed Iqbal grew older, his father Muhammad Ali's troubles increased. 

According to Zia-ul-Haq, Javed Iqbal used to have the opposite thoughts in his mind. Sometimes he used to quarrel with someone, sometimes he was rude to someone, brothers and sisters sometimes. But only to the extent of talk. Father, however, was worried about his actions. 

According to Zia-ul-Haq, an elder of his family had seen Javed and said that 'Javed Iqbal will create a name, whether he does it in good name or in notoriety.'He said that since childhood, Javed had a desire to have a name in the world. Javed Iqbal's old friend Naseem Murshid alias Bawa told BBC that 'Javed Iqbal used to study in Railway Road College, from there he got bad habits.'

'He loved children very much'

Javed Iqbal's father had set up a small iron pipe factory for him in Shad Bagh. At the same time, Naseem Murshid befriended Javed Iqbal, who was a retired police constable. According to Naseem Murshid, Javed Iqbal was also elected as the president of the market and at that time the magistrate and AC of the area used to visit him in his office. A dark chapter of Javed Iqbal's personality also begins from this area. Javed Iqbal used to select young children to work in his factory. Javed's brother Zia-ul-Haq says that he needed labor for work. But he cared a lot about those children (factory workers). He used to take off their old clothes and give them new clothes and shoes. He used to spend thousands of rupees on these children. He also used to take them for a walk in Murree. 

Outside the factory Javed Iqbal had also opened a snake and fish shop to attract the children and the children of the area used to gather around it all day long. 

But Javed Iqbal's focus on working children was not just a business strategy. According to Naseem Murshid, he was accused of misbehaving with children for the first time in Shad Bagh. The matter became so serious that a case was also registered against Javed Iqbal in the year 1990 in Shad Bagh police station, but Javed managed to escape before being arrested, after which the police arrested Javed's father and brother. 

The dignitaries of the area gathered and Javed Iqbal was expelled from Shad Bagh. Javed Iqbal was also asked to sign an affidavit (stamp paper) that he will not set foot in this area again. According to Naseem Murshid, Javed Iqbal had admitted to the local dignitaries that he had committed sexual abuse of children for which he was expelled from there (Shad Bagh) as a punishment. Javed Iqbal's father Muhammad Ali was very worried by his son's action. But Javed Iqbal's brother Zia-ul-Haq still refuses to admit that his brother used to sexually abuse children. 

"He just loved children," she told the BBC. 

The strange thing is that Javed Iqbal had two marriages which failed. Javed Iqbal's brother Zia-ul-Haq said that Javed Iqbal had a daughter from his first wife, but this marriage did not last long, "then we married her a second time." He also had a son. 

 Javed Iqbal loved his children and nephews as much as the children who worked in his factory, Ziaul Haq said, "He did not love his children and nephews as much." He used to give money sometimes. Zia-ul-Haq must admit that he had severed ties with Javed Iqbal many years ago and had stopped interacting with him. 

It should be noted that the first formal case of child abuse against Javed Iqbal was registered in 1990 at Shad Bagh police station and the second case was registered in 1998, i.e. a year before the incident of child murder, at Lower Mall police station in Lahore. In the second case, Javed Iqbal spent some time in jail but was later released. 

What was it that Javed Iqbal was not only avoiding the arrest of the police in spite of the accusations and cases of sexual abuse, but after some time he was able to commit an even more serious crime? The surprising thing is that Javed Iqbal kept getting away from the policemen all this time. 

'His mind worked like a computer'??m

Leaving the issue of child rap aside for a moment, this part of Javed Iqbal's life shows him as a man who was not only fond of earning, showing off and spending money, but also hungry for fame. 

When Naseem Murshid was asked about Javed Iqbal's personality, he said that Javed Iqbal's mind worked like a computer. He had a picture of Governor Punjab Ghulam Jilani installed in his room and used to say, 'Look, Governor Jilani with Javed Iqbal.'

Javed Iqbal also had a few other hobbies. Carrying weapons, photography, keeping snakes, watching movies and befriending influential people. All these were expensive hobbies and they also brought him into the public eye. But at the same time, Javed Iqbal was also a part-time journalist. .

According to Javed Iqbal's brother Zia-ul-Haq, "Javed was also a writer and the editor of a monthly magazine 'Anti-Corruption'." Through this magazine, Javed Iqbal befriended many policemen. He used to deliver magazines to the police stations every month and thus his acquaintance with the policemen increased. Policemen used to come and go in Javed Iqbal's private gatherings as well. 

All these hobbies might have proved expensive on Javed Iqbal's pocket, but according to Javed Iqbal's brother Zia-ul-Haq, after the death of his father, when the property was divided, Javed's share included two shops and two flats at No. 3, Brandeth Road, Ram Street. The box came. When this property was sold for lakhs, Javed's family became indignant. 

In the year 1993, Javed Iqbal bought several kanals of land in Rana Town and built a bungalow there where he housed working children. He also had a jeep in which he used to take the children for outings to Murree. According to Naseem Murshid, Javed Iqbal left Shad Bagh and settled first in Rana Town and later in Ghaziabad. This frequent change of residence was probably the reason behind Javed's infamous expulsion from Shad Bagh, but now this habit was about to take a new turn in his life. 

"On September 17, 1998, I was murdered."

In the year 1998, Javed Iqbal was living in Ghaziabad area of ​​Lahore when an incident happened to him which brought him to the verge of death. Later Javed Iqbal made a plan to kill 100 children based on this incident. Javed Iqbal wrote something about this in his diary: 'I used to be very happy. Five, seven hundred rupees were spent daily from two video games shops. On September 15, Yadgar Minar went to Pakistan for a tour. I saw an eighteen year old boy. When asked for work, he agreed. After crossing the bridge, another young man was found. When he was asked for work, he came along. The first one belonged to Narowal, the second one belonged to Kohat Bannu. On September 17, the house was sold and at night in the room, I slept on the bed and the two new employees, including the boss, on the foam mattresses below. The room key was under my mattress. When he regained consciousness around October 8, he was at his mother's house. I was in a lot of pain. Mother said there was an accident with you. I found out that I was killed on the night of September 17. Arbab, a small child, was also killed. Javed Iqbal claimed in his diary that two of his new employees tried to sexually assault an employee named Arbab in the night and killed him for making noise, while he himself was beaten while he was sleeping and money was stolen from the house. . The real reality was something else. A case 239/98 was registered in Ghaziabad Police Station in the complaint of Javed Iqbal's brother Pervez Iqbal, according to the details of which both Pervez Iqbal and his youngest brother Saeed Iqbal went to meet Javed Iqbal at his house, Javed soon after his arrival. Later, a seven-year-old servant named Arbab and a malishye (oil massager)Came home with

According to Pervez Iqbal's request in the case, the two brothers slept downstairs while Javed Iqbal, his servant Arbab and Malshia went to sleep on the upper floor. According to Parvez, he heard a sound in the night and woke up to see that Malaysia had run away, but his brother Javed and employee Arbab were lying injured in blood. In the investigation of this case, when the accused Malshia was arrested, he stated that Javed Iqbal took him to his house on the pretext of giving him a massage, where he was forcibly raped. After Javed Iqbal went to sleep, he took out a gun from the closet in the room and hit his butt, injuring Javed and fled from there. After these facts came to light, the police registered a case against Javed Iqbal under section 377 of PPC. 

Javed Iqbal's brother Zia-ul-Haq told the BBC that 'Javed's head bones were broken. My mother was very worried. When he went to the hospital, he was in a very bad condition. Doctors said that there is little chance of survival. There was probably a five or ten percent chance of survival because his head had swelled to the size of a big pitcher due to the injuries. 

"It was our sin to save him."

According to Javed Iqbal's brother, after the incident, Javed was in such a bad state that he did not recognize anyone. We asked the doctors to somehow save him, that's the only sin that happened to us. After this incident, Javed underwent treatment for several months during which his mother took care of him. Javed survived, but his life had changed. Both his physical and economic condition had deteriorated. 

Former DSP Masood Aziz Khan, who investigated the Javed Iqbal case, told the BBC that Javed Iqbal had told him during the investigation that after the incident (described above), he had thought that he Have to take revenge. He used to say that I have to kill a hundred children who have run away from their homes. While Javed Iqbal attributes this revenge to the indifference and inattention of the police after the incident, as well as the pain caused to his mother, Javed Iqbal's defense lawyer Faisal Najeeb in the case offers another explanation. Speaking to the BBC, Faisal Najeeb said that "when Javed Iqbal used to say that he was dead, he meant that he was sexually disabled after the incident Javed Iqbal's house was located at this place in Ravi Road, where 100 children were killed

16 B Ravi Road

Whatever the reasons, Javed Iqbal moved into the house at 16 B Ravi Road after the incident where nine months later he claimed to have killed a hundred children. According to Javed Iqbal's diary, it was 20 February 1999 and his mother was also with him. This three-room, three-marla house, which no longer exists in its original condition, was located a few steps away from Lahore's Yadgar Chowk in a closed street on the banks of Old Ravi, with only a few houses nearby. 

Syed Munir Hussain Shah works as a property dealer in this area. He still remembers well the day when Javed Iqbal came to his office to rent a house. Syed Munir Hussain Shah said that he was supported by three or four people. He wanted to rent this house which belonged to a retired Brigadier. He looked sick. I thought what would happen if something happened to him, so I asked for a personal guarantee. One of his relatives, who lives in Lakar Mandi, asked me to rent him a house. I took a commission of five hundred rupees and gave him a house on rent for one year at two thousand rupees per month. 

According to Syed Munir Hussain Shah, Javed's mother, wife and a child also used to stay in this house sometimes because 'often I went to collect the rent and Javed's mother used to pay the rent.'

This was the time when Javed Iqbal's financial situation was deteriorating with each passing day. There were no more factories, no video game stores, from which to earn on a take-away basis. Javed Iqbal started asking his brothers for help and money. This was the time when Javed Iqbal started to execute his plan to kill hundred children and the transfer of 16 B Ravi Road was the first step of this plan. 

According to Javed Iqbal's diary, the killing spree of the children began on June 20, 1999 and accelerated after the death of his mother on July 26. According to the same diary, the last killing was done on November 13. 

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"We used to bring children on the pretext of selling papad"

Nadeem alias Demi was about 12 years old when he called his house Khairabad. 'The heart was raised by the study. Just came to Lahore. 

Nadeem was later acquitted by the Federal Sharia Court overturning his sentence for assisting a subordinate court in the Javed Iqbal case. 

With the assistance of Asma Jahangir Legal Cell, the BBC Urdu team visited Javed Iqbal's old colleague Nadeem in his village, where Nadeem, now 35, is not only married but also the father of a son. But the impact of the 22-year-old incident on his life is still visible in his eyes. 

Nadeem said that when he left home at the age of 12 and reached Lahore, one day he met Javed Iqbal at Minar Pakistan. He asked, will you do the work, I said I will. I don't remember now what salary he offered, but he promised to give me a place to stay, food and clothes to wear, so I went with him. 

According to Nadeem, he was told to go to Minar Pakistan and Data Darbar to sell papad and bring runaways like himself and children there under the pretext of work. According to Nadeem, he spent around 15 days in this house on Ravi Road and during that time he brought thirteen, fourteen children between the ages of six and sixteen. 

Three to four children were present in this house every night. Everyone went to work in the morning. Some would come back. They used to eat at home, they used to sleep there. Nadeem was twelve years old at that time. He says that he spent most of his time in the first room of the house where there was a TV and a bed. Javed Iqbal used to sit on the bed and watch English movies on TV. Sometimes he went out. No one used to visit him there. 

Nadeem says that during the time he lived in this house, he neither saw any child being killed nor any child being sexually abused. I don't know what happened there. We did not go to any other room. Nothing like that happened in front of us. Nadeem's father, Yasin, told  that Nadeem suddenly returned home on November 30. "We had sent our child to a nearby seminary to memorize the Quran, but after some time we found that he had run away from there."

According to Yasin, he searched a lot for Nadeem but could not find him. 'There was no contact with him for several weeks and then on November 30 he returned home on his own.'

Javed Iqbal Case Investigation Officer Former DSP Masood Aziz Han

'No one ever complained in the street'

Property dealer Syed Munir Hussain Shah is still not ready to believe that Javed Qabal killed 100 children in the same house. According to him, at that time there were only four houses in the street and there was a puncture shop and a tea shop outside the street. 

If they were locked inside, they would also know that someone is going inside. I don't think children were killed in this house. I did not see. No one ever complained in the street. According to Syed Munir Hussain, there was a house just in front of this house and a family lived in the house next to it, while the back wall of the house was not very high. "It was visible from the house next door, but no one ever said that there was a smell of acid or something burning."

Abdul Jabbar used to work in Lahore's Sarafa Bazar and came to live in the Ravi Road street where Javed Qabal's house was also two and a half months before the revelations of the murder of 100 children came to light. They also seem to be questioning the veracity of this case. Abdul Jabbar told the BBC that his house and Javed Iqbal's house were facing each other, but he never saw Javed Iqbal or any children coming and going from the street. 

Abdul Jabbar said that these days he had a broken leg which was undergoing treatment and at the same time he was getting his new house built for which he was sitting outside the house all day in the street. 

Javed Iqbal's first acknowledgment letter; "This is a crazy person."

In this case, not only the neighbors and property dealers seem to be raising questions, but the strange thing is that the police also refused to believe that he could have committed the murder after Javed Iqbal's first confession letter. 

This is a matter of time before this case came to light when according to Javed Iqbal's first confession, he had killed a hundred children. Javed Qabal wrote letters to the top police officials in which he confessed to killing 100 children and also provided all the details of how, when and where he committed the murders and his motive for carrying out the crime. What was the purpose? 

He also mentioned in the letters that he had a diary in which the full details of these crimes were written. 

One such letter reached the then DIG Lahore, who assigned DSPCIA Tariq Kumboh the task of tracing the authenticity of the letter. 

What happened after that? Speaking to BBC Urdu, police officials, lawyers and property dealer Munir Hussain Shah narrated various incidents. 

According to Muneer Hussain Shah, DSP Tariq Kamboh came to Ravi Road where he came to his office and inquired about Javed Iqbal and later went to Javed's house. According to police officials, Tariq Kamboh called Javed Iqbal to the office for questioning. According to the then public prosecutor of the case, when Tariq Kamboh went to Javed Iqbal's house, he also picked up a pistol to attempt suicide. According to the news published in the newspaper of that time, Javed Iqbal was taken to the CIA police station. 

The contradiction of these statements ends in consensus that at that time DSP Tariq Kumboh let Javed Iqbal go by saying that he is a mad person, how could he kill 100 children? 

A few days later, some drums filled with acid were recovered from Javed Iqbal's house, in which human remains were found. But the surprising thing is that on the one hand the police could not fully investigate the incident even after the report and on the other hand a journalist did what the police would have done in the first instance, the case would have been solved earlier. 

Javed Iqbal's second letter: 'Can anyone do this?'

Retired DSP Masood Aziz, investigating officer of the case, believes that Javed Iqbal's hunger for fame was one of the reasons behind this crime. He says that when Javed saw that nothing happened despite the letter written to the police, he sent the same letter to Jang newspaper a week later. 

Javed Iqbal's house was located at this place in Ravi Road, where 100 children were killed

On December 2, 1998, this letter was present in front of Jameel Chishti, the crime editor of Jang Akhbar Lahore, who was reading the letter and thinking, is it really possible? 

Jameel Chishti told  that it was a heavy envelope containing photographs of 75 children taken in one room and a written claim that there was evidence of the murder of 100 children in the house at 16 B Ravi Road. 

At that time we were thinking, can this really happen? I had no idea that someone could kill children in such a merciless manner. 

Jameel Chishti decided that there was no harm in inspecting this house. Jameel Chishti says that there was a lock outside the house, but after looking around, he got in touch with the property dealer Syed Munir Hussain Shah and took him with him and entered the house by climbing a ladder from the house next to Javed Iqbal. reached. 

"A hundred children have been killed here"

Jameel Chishti says that 'when we got inside the house, I saw a sack on which was written shoes of 100 children. One hundred children's clothes were written on another sack. It was all as written in the letter. Now I started looking for the store. Soon we also got a small store. It was dark when they entered. I turned on the bulb and saw that there was a drum. You cannot imagine what happened to me when I lifted the lid of this drum. My hands were burnt with acid, the smell was so strong that I fainted. 

'I was not being able to handle myself. When I told Syed Munir Hussain that you used to say that there is nothing here, but 100 children have been killed here. As soon as he heard this, he fainted. 

According to Jameel Chishti, the story written in Javed Qabal's letters now seemed true to him. When the property dealer brought Munir to his senses, he was also worried. Then Ashiq Marth, SHO of Thana Ravi Road was called. Muneer Hussain Shah, when asked by BBC Urdu about that day, said that he first entered the house with the police but admitted that there was meat in a drum in a room. He had fainted after seeing the piece. A crime of which all the evidence was left by the criminal himself

Inspector retired Rana Muhammad Afzal was also part of the police team that was the first to reach the spot. Inspector Rana Muhammad Afzal said that the house had a small yard and three small rooms. It was a deserted house, there was a strange smell coming from inside. In one room there were blue drums containing the solution. Some organs were visible in a drum. 

Police also recovered an iron bracelet from the human remains in the drum at the scene, while 77 pairs of children's shoes and 100 children's clothes were also found packed in separate bags. Several handwritten pamphlets of Javed Iqbal were also found, on which it was stated that he had killed 100 children and thrown them in acid. 

Two jugs filled with human hair and a 16-inch long iron chain were found in the first room. An album of children's photographs and three diaries written by accused Javed Iqbal were also found from the side table of the bed. One of the diaries contained the names of the children while the other described how the children were killed. According to Inspector Rana Siddique, these items were sent to the forensic laboratory for examination. Now this story was getting scary. 

"We printed the news on the same day"

It was a big news for Jameel Chishti. Before the news reached the rest of the newspapers, they decided to print it. According to Jameel Chishti, he also found a diary from the house in which Javed Iqbal had written the home address of each child. 

We checked every city where the address was written to see if a child with that name was missing. When confirmed, this meant that his claim of killing a hundred children was true. We posted the news with the pictures of the children and the headline that the murder of a hundred children was revealed. News of Javed Iqbal's arrest in Jang Akhbar When this news was published with more details in the newspapers of Pakistan on December 3, it spread like fire across the country. After seeing the pictures of the children, people gathered at the Ghafir Police Station, Ravi Road. Parents of several missing children searched for their children in the clothes and shoes of the children recovered from Sola B Ravi Road. 

Inspector Rana Siddique says that the few days in which this process of identification was going on were fateful. The screams of women identifying their children's belongings still ring in their ears to this day. 

This outcry also made international media headlines. Nawaz Sharif's government was overthrown in the country not long ago. It became a test case for the new government of General Pervez Musharraf. The police authorities could no longer ignore the case. But now the same criminal who had earlier reported the crime to the police had disappeared. 

Javed Iqbal's name was nowhere to be found. The police arrested all those who had any connection with him. Javed Iqbal's brother, property dealer Munir Hussain Shah, old friend Naseem Murshid, Ishaq called. Because Javed Iqbal had recorded the names of all these persons as co-criminals in his diary. The police didn't spare anyone, but Javed Iqbal was not caught. 

Regarding Murshid Naseem, Javed Iqbal wrote in his diary that Murshid Naseem had advised him to kill children in this way and put the bodies in acid to make a solution, while Ishaq Bila used to arrange the acid for him. Ishaq Bula, who was imprisoned in the CIA police headquarters located in Qila Gujar Singh, died by falling from the window during the investigation, the police declared it as suicide, but later in the judicial inquiry, it was proved that the accused Ishaq Bula was killed due to alleged torture. was A case was also registered against Tariq Kamboh under the provisions of murder. 

Asked why Javed Iqbal repeatedly mentioned him in his diary, Naseem Murshid said that he did not know but he had ended his relationship with Javed Iqbal at Shad Bagh. Naseem Murshid further said that the most time spent with Javed Iqbal was Ishaq Bala, who was with him since childhood and used to do all the household chores from cooking to cooking. 

On the other hand, on the complaint of SHO Ravi Road Ashiq Marth, on December 2, 1999, a case number 316/99 was registered against Javed Iqbal and others on the charges of killing and abusing 100 children under the Pakistan Penal Code. (PPC) various provisions including 302, 201, 377 and 377 while the provisions of the Limitation Ordinance. Seven and 12 were added. Anti-terrorism section seven was also added to the case. 

"We asked where the heads are going?"

Where was Javed Iqbal at that time? We put this question before Nadeem. The reason for this was that when Nadeem reached home on November 30, Javed Iqbal also came to his home a day later. It is December 1st. Nadeem's father said that Javed Iqbal and his accomplice Sajid came to his house on December 1, 1999. 

When Nadeem returned home, he had four thousand rupees. We doubted where he got so much money from, so he said that he works in Lahore. Yasin said that Javed Iqbal told him that he was a senior government official. He also gave his card and said that he is a sick person, let Nadeem go with him because Nadeem has done him a great service. Yasin says how did she know that she was handing over her child again to a man who was wanted for such serious crimes. According to Yasin, he himself had brought the three on a bus. 

According to Nadeem, Javed Iqbal then told him that those people were dying. Then we stayed in the hills. I once asked why sir we came here. He said that he was just taking a walk. On the other hand, Masood Aziz Khan says that the sister of the accused Javed Iqbal told him that the accused has nothing except three bonds of 10,000. The police informed the branches of this bank across Pakistan that anyone coming to cash these bonds should be reported immediately. According to Masood Aziz Khan, by the time our message reached the banks, Javed Iqbal had cashed a bond from Dina. This Sarai Alamgir went to a bank to cash the second bond. 

In this bank of Sarai Alamgir, Javed Iqbal sent Nadeem and Sajid and himself stood outside. "As soon as we gave the check to the cashier, he shouted to close the bank door," Nadeem told that is the same person who has killed a hundred children. 

Javed Iqbal fled on seeing this but Sajid and Nadeem were caught. Nadeem says that Sajid was a special servant of Javed and he was with him everywhere. "The children told us that they had a blanket and they mostly stayed in caves instead of hotels, so they could not be caught by the police," says Masood Aziz Khan.

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"We were afraid that he might commit suicide."

The date was December 30. That was the day Jameel Chishti was informed that Javed Iqbal had reached the war office at half past nine in the night. I immediately reached the office and saw that there was a rush. When I saw him in front of me, I did not recognize him. There was a look of fanaticism on his face. Beard grown, cap on head. I don't know where he stayed for so long. 

According to Jameel Chishti, he saw that Javed Iqbal's lips were getting dry. "We were afraid that he might not have eaten anything, so he was searched and cyanide tablets were found in his possession."

According to Jameel Chishti, he also noted that Javed Iqbal was wearing two pairs of socks and when asked, he told that his feet were burnt due to acid. 'When the stockings were removed, several tablets of Valium Ten (a sleeping pill) came out. We gave him a lot of water, fearing that he might not have eaten anything already. 

It should be noted that Javed Iqbal had written in his confessional letter that he is suicidal. 

Jameel Chishti recorded the interview of Javed Iqbal for nearly two hours that day along with other Jang staff. According to Jameel Chishti, he asked Javed Iqbal all kinds of questions related to the case, including the reason for killing hundred children. 

'He had said that he had had an attack which nearly killed him and that his mother had died from the shock of her illness, after which he determined that the children had If his mother is dead, he will make the mothers of a hundred children cry.'

Javed Iqbal told Jameel Chishti that he had promised to kill only one hundred children. "Target of 100 has been met," he said.Meanwhile, police and security agencies had reached there. A crowd of people had also gathered outside the War Office. Javed Iqbal was arrested as soon as the interview was over. Masood Aziz Khan says that "We brought Javed Iqbal to Fort Gujar Singh where Nadeem and Sajid were already under investigation." The fourth accused in the case, Muhammad Sabir, was handed over to the police by his father. 

Javed Iqbal was very satisfied. 

Masood Aziz Khan says that when I saw Javed for the first time, his beard had grown, he used to talk in a sloppy manner but his speech was fine. He was very satisfied. I don't have any regrets about it. 

He kept a TV and a bed in one room. Here he used to give new clothes to the children and sit them in front of the TV and sit on the bed himself. While the children were watching TV, Javed Iqbal used to strangle their necks with both hands using a chain. Drums were kept in the third room of the house in which he used to put the dead bodies of children and their bodies decomposed within a day. He used to take this photo of each child and the address of the house, which he used to note in the diary. 

"Javed Iqbal had told during the investigation that initially he did not have a camera but after killing 43 children he had arranged for a camera, that's why he had pictures of only 57 children."

Javed Iqbal told us that at first, after the murder, he used to dissolve the body in acid and throw the remains through the flush, which blocked the sewer, so the locals complained that Javed, what are you doing to block the sewer? goes Then he started throwing leftovers at the old narrator. 

According to Masood Aziz Khan, the investigation of this case was difficult because there were no eyewitnesses to the incident other than the accused. "One proof we got was that when he left the house, there was a fruitarian in the street with whom he was friends. He told us that when he used to come in the morning, he used to see Javed Iqbal carrying a drum from home. 

The police also started the process of identifying the missing children. "We sent the police to every child's house. He identified children's clothes, shoes. Families of missing children came from as far as Lorelai. Finally, two bracelets were found from the drum, which are inserted into the feet. Those two children belonged to Kasur. Their parents identified that these bracelets were indeed worn by their children. 

In response to another question, Masood Aziz Khan said that even when the investigation was completed and the challan was being prepared, verification was being done again and again that a child might have escaped. During this time, it was known that the name of a child was recorded in the diary of Javed Iqbal who was found in his house in Bhai Phero. 

Senior officers interviewed the boy and he said that he used to work at a tea house where two children came and said that they have a teacher who sells papad, come with us and you will get more money. They took the child along where they undressed him, he became suspicious and ran away. When the child's teacher asked him to take him to that place, the child said that he does not even remember that street. 

Javed Iqbal's uterus

On February 8, 2000, the police completed the investigation of the case and submitted the challan to the local court, proving the four accused including the main accused Javed Iqbal, Shehzad alias Gudu alias Sajid, Muhammad Nadeem alias Dimi and Muhammad Sabir as accused. End Sessions Judge Allah Bakhsh was appointed in the court of Ranjha. 

The four accused were produced in the court on February 9, where the accused said that they could not arrange lawyers at their own expense. That is why Advocate Faisal Najeeb Chaudhry was appointed as counsel for Javed Iqbal, Advocate Abdul Baqi for Sajid, Advocate Asghar Ali for Nadeem and Advocate Safdar Javed Chaudhry for the accused Muhammad Sabir. While looking at the nature of the case, Muhammad Ashraf Tahir Assistant Public Prosecutor, Burhan Moazzam Malik, Muhammad Asghar Rukdi, Amjad Chatta, Aftab Ahmed and Iqbal Cheema were appointed as Special Public Prosecutors. 

The court indicted the accused on February 17, 2000, but the accused denied the crime. Javed Iqbal had now taken the uterus. There was another twist in the case. The same case in which the police was initially refusing to believe Javed Iqbal's claim, now the police were trying to prove the case and declare Javed as a liar. 

Javed Iqbal claimed that he had spun a false story with the sole purpose of pointing out flaws in the police system and enabling the return of runaway children to their loved ones. 

What was true and what was false? It was getting difficult to decide. 

Where did the clothes found in Javed Iqbal's house come from? 

Javed Iqbal's brother Zia-ul-Haq told the BBC that when Javed Iqbal bought new clothes for the children working in his factory, he would "throw their old clothes and shoes in the store". The stories that came later that the children's clothes and shoes were found, these were the same clothes and shoes that he used to pick up and throw away. 

But according to Burhan Muazzam Malik, who was the public prosecutor during the case, this was not the case and it was proved during the hearing of the case. 

Speaking to BBC, Burhan Moazzam Malik said that a woman came to us who was the mother of a missing child. When he was shown the clothes and asked if you can recognize that these are your child's clothes, he put his hand on a shalwar kameez and said that these are my child's clothes. The defense lawyer asked this woman that it is an ordinary cloth that can belong to anyone. He said no, it can't be someone else's because I sewed this shalwar kameez with my own hands. 

When she was asked that out of so many clothes, how can you recognize that these clothes were sewn by you, the woman's answer was that we are poor people, we don't have a sewing machine. Normal shalwar kameez is sewn on a sewing machine, but these clothes were sewn by hand. The woman added, "If you open these clothes, you will see that the azaar band of the shalwar is also hand woven and in it, I have put seven different colored threads." When these clothes were opened in the court at the same time, there were threads of seven colors in the hem of the shalwar according to the woman's statement. 

"Javed Iqbal was not fit"

Javed Iqbal's former lawyer Advocate Faisal NAB Chaudhry said that he was disabled. One of his bones was broken. Could not walk without support. Now how can a disabled man do all this? Another thing is that he was sexually debilitated. When he used to say 'I'm dead', what he really meant was when his head was hurt and his bone was broken, then his sexual masculinity was also affected. The allegation of misconduct on Javed Iqbal was completely wrong. 

Faisal Najeeb says that the real story is that he used to bring children. Bathed them. He used to dress them well. He used to have sex with each other because he himself had become weak. He used to make videos. And used to enjoy. He himself used to say that I am finished. He had a habit of misbehavior. 

But according to Dr. Imtiaz Ahmed's report in the case, Javed Iqbal was not unfit nor did he have any weakness. On December 31, 1999, when both Nadeem and Sajid underwent medical tests, it was also proved that Nadeem and Sajid were continuously abused by the same person and the last time Nadeem had sexual intercourse with Nadeem a week before his arrest. had goneBut due to the passage of time, no pattern could be obtained to identify the person. 

"Javed Iqbal lied only for fame"

Javed Iqbal's former lawyer Advocate Faisal Najeeb says that Javed Iqbal used to do all this to make himself famous. "He told me I was doing it to make myself famous so I could write a book later and make money from it."

According to advocate Faisal Chaudhry, Javed Iqbal was suffering from megalomania. When he was told that he himself admitted this and told the story himself, he said that I told this story after watching English films. He also told the names of these films. 

Think for yourself that it is not possible to abduct a hundred children, abuse and kill them and dispose of their bodies and organs in three months. If you see the scene, this three marla house has two two three three feet walls. That is, it could be seen from outside. A child died, it was not known, a hundred children died and no one knew. 

Advocate Faisal Chaudhry claimed that false evidence was fabricated against Javed Iqbal as once police officer Tariq Kamboh had cleared Javed Iqbal. All this drama was done to divert attention from the Nawaz Sharif hijacking case. Then this case went up and people's attention was diverted from this case. 

"People take advantage of time, Javed Iqbal used to take advantage of seconds."

Advocate Burhan Muazzam Malik, the special public prosecutor of this case, dismissed all the doubts about Javed Iqbal's case. "The prosecution had a lot of evidence. First of all, there was Javed Iqbal's own confession which he gave in Jang newspaper. There were several eyewitnesses who last saw him with the children, then the parents of the children identified clothes from there, there was also acid from which human remains were found. 

On the question whether Javed Iqbal had really killed 100 children, Advocate Burhan Moazzam Malik says that the investigation started with 100 children. "We have confirmed the disappearance of 72 children whose parents have also come forward. The court sentenced only 72 children. There was no such child that proved to be alive. We had the evidence of about a hundred children but the evidence of 28 children was not accepted by the court because neither the bodies were there nor their post-mortem could be done. 

We could not reach many parents. He had chosen three places which were Minar Pakistan, Lahore Lorry Base and Data Darbar. We believe that those we could not reach were probably children from tribal areas or remote areas who had not been home for many years, their parents may not have known. It is also possible that some were orphans with no one to follow them. Because there were evidences in Javed's house but there was no one to identify them. 

Talking about the personality of Javed Iqbal, Burhan Muazzam Malik said that Javed Iqbal looked innocent in appearance but was a very clever and kind person. People take advantage of time, I have seen Javed take advantage of seconds. He used to play. With us, he used to play with the police and even the judge. On the second or third day when he came to the court, he addressed the judge and said, "Sir, the SPCIA that is standing will not bring me buckets, loots and sweaters." Order him to deliver these items to me which the court gave. Coming to the court the next day, Javed said, "Judge sir, today my heart is eating gram flour of Nila Gonbad". On the third day, Javed said to the judge, "Judge, my heart wants to have a big canoe and black salt with it. He used to make such requests and the judge used to fulfill his requests."

Burhan Muazzam Malik says that 'can a person be so heartless that he beats a child against a child? If a person hits a child with a stick, he is forced to think that he should not be hit again. He would not only kill them but also cut their bodies into pieces. I think that he was a big beast of that time. 

A clipping of the news published in the English newspaper The News about Javed Iqbal's sentence

'The body of Javed Iqbal should be cut into pieces'

When the formal trial of the case started, within a few weeks i.e. on March 16, 2000, Judge Allah Bakhsh Ranjha pronounced the verdict in this historic case and the accused Javed Iqbal and Sajid were sentenced under qisas, in which it was ordered that the Minar In front of Pakistan, the victims' bodies were cut into 100 pieces with acid in the presence of their parentsPut in and make a solution. 

According to the court decision, the allegation of rape could not be proved. While this court decision was generally welcomed, some lawyers, human rights organizations and some serious circles also criticized it and called this decision against the constitution and law. 

Jameel Chishti was present in the court that day. Speaking to BBC, he said that "I was thinking that Javed Iqbal would not faint after hearing the sentence, but he laughed and looked at me and waved his hand as if he was thanking me."Later, when they put him in the police van, he hugged me and told me that I am grateful to you that my mission was accomplished because of you. 

Nadeem was also present in the court room, but in the noise, he did not know anything about the punishment. Nadeem said that when they took us to Bahawalpur jail and one of the men told us that we will have to stay in jail for the rest of our lives, the ground came out from under our feet. 

Justice Retired Allah Bakhsh Ranjha

It was a historic decision. 

The then Additional and Sessions Judge Justice Allah Bakhsh Ranjha spoke to BBC Urdu for the first time openly about this decision, the circumstances and events of that time and the public sentiments and expectations related to this case. 

Justice Ranjha completely rejects the claim of advocate Faisal Chaudhry that the Javed Iqbal case questions etc was done to divert attention from the Nawaz Sharif plane hijacking case. "It's nonsense."

"There must have been such things verbally that this case has created a great sensation, so now it should be decided as soon as possible."

He further said that he was not aware of any pressure from the government but "I was given the impression that you have been selected to decide the case quickly." I used to hear all the trials on a daily basis. 

I still remember that when the evidence was put in front of him that did he go to the war office of his own free will, he answered in the court that of course he went to the war office of his own free will. Asked him that he had confessed to killing 100 children in the interview there, he said yes. 

While talking about the court scenes at that time, Justice Ranjha said that 'You can understand that there was mourning inside the court. The women tried to run and run so that they could catch Javed Iqbal and beat him the way he had beaten their children. It was a very painful scene which was difficult to control. 

Talking about the mental balance of Javed Iqbal, Justice Ranjha said that Javed Iqbal must have had psychological problems but mentally he was perfectly fine. According to Justice Ranjha, Javed Iqbal was a poacher who had licensed guns, and was friends with policemen. The police officers were his friends. 

According to Justice Ranjha, during the trial, when Javed Iqbal used to say such things, all the policemen would come and beg him to stop him from speaking against the police, but I would tell him that it is not the job of a judge to punish him. Forbid me to speak, what is my purpose.'

Justice Ranjha also raised  about the police's poor investigation in the case. When Javed Iqbal was undergoing treatment at the General Hospital, none of these doctors were presented as witnesses. However, it should have been presented what was the problem, what were the effects of the injury he suffered. These things should have been told by a doctor because it is beyond the jurisdiction of the judge. 

It is also the job of an investigating officer or a judge to find out why he used to dress the children in new clothes even though he had to kill them. Why did they take him to another room? It was also revealed that he used to perfume the children and all such arrangements were made by him there as long as he had the money. We knew off the record. 

Did Javed Iqbal really kill 100 children? In response to this question, Justice Ranjha said that till date, has there been any child who has said that I am alive? Apart from the defense lawyers, even the media has not been able to bring forward any child whose name was mentioned in the diary. One half of the child may have survived but they should have come to the media that this is the child whom the prosecution says was killed by Javed Iqbal but is alive. 

On this decision, he said that the decision was really unusual because the prosecution demanded revenge. Qisas in Islamic system means nose for nose, tooth for tooth etc. Therefore, Javed Iqbal was sentenced to the same punishment by which the accused commits a crime. Qisas has never been sought in the judicial history of Pakistan. 

In response to another question, Justice Ranjha said that 'It is true that Javed Iqbal used to make many requests for food and drink during the trial in the court, but he never fulfilled any of Javed Iqbal's requests from his own pocket, but rather from his own pocket. Lawyers used to bring things. He used to say that he is sick and hungry, so they would bring him again. 

After the court decision, the appeal of this case came before the Divisional Bench of Lahore High Court, but the bench referred to the Limitation Ordinance and sent the matter to the Federal Sharia Court where the case was yet to be heard that Javed Iqbal and Sajid were in the same jail and in one. They were found dead in their cell at the same time. 

Jail authorities call it suicide but the mystery surrounding the case leaves many questions. 

Javed Iqbal was afraid that he would be killed. 

Javed Iqbal's ex-lawyer Faisal Najeeb says that how can two people who are not even together commit suicide at the same time when they have nothing there. They were killed by planning. It was a deliberate conspiracy. 

He further said that Javed Iqbal had told me that the jailers were telling him to commit suicide. He took out the blade from the socks and showed me that it was given by the jailers. He wrote a two-page letter and asked me to file a case. 

I filed a case in court, Justice Riaz Kayani took notice and a statement was given by the government that there is no conspiracy to kill Javed. I am 100% sure that Javed Iqbal was killed to end this whole story. No one was following his case. The family members were already withdrawn, after this case they completely withdrew. 

'There was no conspiracy'

Masood Aziz denies these allegations. According to him, the police were very cautious after the death of Ishaq Bula. At that time, a senior official of Kot Lakhpat Jail told BBC Urdu on condition of anonymity that Javed Iqbal tried to commit suicide several times before committing suicide. According to him, when Javed Iqbal was given food, he used to break the food utensils by hitting the bulbs in his cell and injured himself with these broken glasses. 

According to a senior jail official, Javed Iqbal was a psychiatric patient who was undergoing trial and was once taken to a mental hospital. All electrical wires were removed from Javed Iqbal's cell and the walls of the latrine, which are usually four feet, were kept only two feet to keep an eye on Javed. 

Regarding the alleged suicide of Sajid and Javed Iqbal in two separate cells but at the same time, a senior jail official said that both committed suicide when security personnel were changing their shifts. We saw that their bodies were lying on the ground and at first glance it seemed that they had not been poisoned. This mystery was not solved for 15 days as to how these two died. Then one day the official on duty told the truth that actually both of them committed suicide by tying one end of the sleeping sheet to the bars of the cell and putting the other end around their necks and trapping both feet in the bars. Their bodies were hanging in the cell, but the official had untied the sheets, causing both of them to fall to the ground below, to cover his negligence. 

According to a senior jail official, the IB and ISI also investigated the incident, but no evidence of conspiracy was found. According to the official, Javed and Sajid's cells were next to each other and both could talk to each other, so both of them consulted together and ended their lives. 

In response to another question, the senior official said that Javed had suffered from bipolar disorder and depression and no one visited him when he was sentenced. 

"When the trial was going on, he used to meet other people in the court, talk to them, but nobody liked to talk to him in the prison and maybe that's why he planned to end his life." And since Sajid was hypnotized with Javed, he also preferred to die with JavedBecause after the punishment he had also become completely silent and did not talk to anyone. 

Nadeem got the news of Javed Iqbal's death in Bahawalpur Jail. At that time, it seemed that nothing should happen to us now. But then the Federal Sharia Court acquitted Nadeem. But after being associated with Javed Iqbal's name, Nadeem's life was never the same. Talking to BBC Urdu, Nadeem said that life in prison is difficult. Living in a small cell. Eating there. Think for yourself what life will be like. 

Nadeem says that now he sometimes thinks that life would have been better if he had not run away from home. "I will tell everyone to stay at home and read." Nadeem says about Javed Iqbal that he found his cases.