Karachi police obtain Mir Raza's crypto trading records for last 4 years: official

Karachi police obtain Mir Raza's crypto trading records for last 4 years: official.

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• Imtiaz Ali Published September 9, 2026 Updated September 9, 2026 04: 53pm.
• On Aug 19, Ali's parents, Mir Hussain and Mariam Hussain, wrote to Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, seeking his "direct supervision of the murder investigation".
• KARACHI: Karachi police on Wednesday remarked they have obtained the crypto trading records of 25-year-old businessman Mir Raza Ali.
• Imtiaz Ali is a Karachi-based reporter for Dawn with over 25 years of experience in the field.
• After which Ali's body was exhumed on August 8, the Sindh administration then restored the original medical board.

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KARACHI: Karachi police on Wednesday remarked they have obtained the crypto trading records of 25-year-old businessman Mir Raza Ali. This person was identified dead with a gunshot wound in Gulistan-I-Jauhar in July.

In practice, a police official, wishing to remain anonymous, informed Dawn that police obtained a four-year record through the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) of Ali's involvement in "futures trading" of cryptocurrency on trading platform Binance.

"It showed that he had been doing futures trading for the last four years, " the official continued.

On Monday, Ali's friend Abdul Hasem, appearing before a judicial commission formed to probe the circumstances and feasible negligence around Ali's murder, had additionally noted that he and Ali employed to do crypto trading.

Nevertheless, Hasem stated he had left the trading after sustaining losses while Ali was doing well.

In practice, the single-member judicial commission, chaired by SHC's Justice Omar Sial, has been holding regular hearings.

Last month, police had sought the NCCIA's expertise to retrieve Ali's "digital records/WhatsApp account details" to ascertain anything suspicious. The case so far.

Ali's body was discovered a day after he went missing on July 28. As the police initially attempted to build the case around suicide, since then, the case has been mired in controversy, with the deceased's family accusing the police of trying to bury the facts.

As some observations in the report did not appear to match the available photographs, nevertheless, days after the recovery of Ali's body on July 29, Karachi Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed had informed Geo News that the post-mortem findings in the case had raised a number of questions.

On August 6, a Karachi court took up an application by Ali's father, allowed the exhumation of his body, ordered the formation of a medico-legal board for the purpose and directed that a second autopsy of Ali's body be conducted.

Notably, the Sindh health department then constituted an eight-member board, with police surgeon Dr Syed as the convener. Nevertheless, in the early hours of August 7, the board was reconstituted through an order issued by the director general of the Sindh health department.

While Dr Syed remained the convener of the new five-member board, its members were changed.

But Ali's family rejected the new board. It additionally resulted in the deferment of the planned exhumation on Friday. Meanwhile, the counsel for Ali's family, Nasir, accused the authorities of trying to bury the facts.

While Karachi Further IG Azad Khan transferred the investigation into Ali's murder to Zaman Town police station from Ferozabad Police Station, where the case was registered under charges of kidnapping, a day afterwards, the Sindh inspector general of police's (IG) office notified the reconstitution of the investigating team probing Ali's death.

Notably, the order for the probe team's reconstitution additionally demonstrated that a murder charge had been continued to the first information report.

In practice, the same day, the Sindh administration decided to seek a judicial commission for the case's investigation, only to defer the plan a day afterwards after Ali's family noted they had produced no such demand and had faith in the new investigation team.

On Aug 19, Ali's parents, Mir Hussain and Mariam Hussain, wrote to Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, seeking his "direct supervision of the murder investigation". They additionally called on the chief minister to order an investigation and departmental inquiry into the previous investigation team and immediately suspend the officers involved.

Notably, the provincial administration acknowledged the letter and unveiled the decision on Aug 23 to form a judicial commission to determine whether the investigation in the case was being conducted impartially and to investigate the circumstances surrounding Ali's death.

Nevertheless, the counsel for Ali's family approached the SHC, objecting to the provincial government's decision to form a judicial commission and seeking the formation of an independent and multi-agency JIT "comprising officers who have had no previous involvement in the case".

On Sept 2, the SHC dismissed that petition filed by Ali's family, observing that constituting such a body was the "prerogative of the government".

Meanwhile, the final report of Ali's second post-mortem for the Mir Raza Ali murder case confirmed that his death was caused by a gunshot wound to the back.

"Death occurred due to cardiac rupture consequent to perforating firearm injury of the chest, " the report stated, adding that the entry wound was on the posterior thorax (back) and the exit wound on the anterior thorax (front of the chest).

"The findings are inconsistent with suicide as the manner of death, " it confirmed.

Imtiaz Ali is a Karachi-based reporter for Dawn with over 25 years of experience in the field. His reporting portfolio encompasses crime, politics, and the provincial legislature, alongside coverage of the courts, administration affairs, and the health sector.

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