The Monster of Lahore: Javed Iqbal and the 100 Boys

Writer: Asad Taizai

**The Sickening Case of Javed Iqbal**

In the year 1999, Javed Iqbal went on an unprecedented spree of vicious killings. In just 6 months, 100 boys vanished—murdered and mutilated by the monster named Javed Iqbal. One hundred murders. Six months. This is the terrifying story of how it happened.

Faisal Razik was a 9-year-old boy who worked in a factory folding boxes to make a living. Though his parents loved him dearly, poverty forced the entire family—including Faisal—to work just to survive. On July 9, 1999, Faisal left for work like any other day. But he never returned.

His parents searched desperately. The police, dismissive, suggested he had run away. But the truth was far more horrifying: Faisal had been taken by Javed Iqbal—one of the hundred innocent boys he assaulted, murdered, and dissolved in acid.

Another victim, 13-year-old EZ Muhammad, known as Kaka, worked as a street masseuse in Lahore with his brother. In October 1999, two boys lured him to house number 16B on Ravi Road for a job. There, Javed Iqbal awaited. EZ was never seen alive again.

Javed didn’t act alone. He had three teenage accomplices: 17-year-old Sajid Ahmed, 15-year-old Muhammad Nadeem, and 13-year-old Muhammad Sair. All were brainwashed, sexually assaulted, and coerced into luring other boys to their deaths.

Javed meticulously documented his crimes. In late November, he sent a detailed letter and photographs to the Lahore police. In it, he confessed to murdering 100 boys. Yet, the police dismissed it as a hoax. They even visited his house—but when he pulled a gun, they left without searching.

Not until journalists at Jang newspaper received the same package did the truth begin to surface. They found barrels of body parts, acid, and clothing in the abandoned house. The next day, Jang published the horrific story, confirming Pakistan’s worst serial killer was real.

The entire country was in shock. As the manhunt intensified, grieving mothers came forward. The police had heaps of children’s clothes and shoes—all evidence of their lost sons. Still, Javed remained missing.

Until, on December 29, 1999, Javed Iqbal walked into the Jang newspaper office and confessed.

Born in 1961 into a wealthy family, Javed was spoiled beyond reason. He was given a villa and motorbike as a teenager, and his sexual urges—twisted and predatory—were unchecked. He targeted young boys, luring them with gifts, letters, and manipulation. His family tried to intervene, even arranging two failed marriages.

His crimes escalated. Arrested for sodomizing a child, he refused to turn himself in, even when his father and brothers were arrested. When he did surrender, he bribed his way out. In one case, community elders punished him with public shaming—a slap on the wrist for such vile acts.

After his father's death and a brutal beating by one of his victims, Javed’s world collapsed. His assets were sold to cover hospital bills. His mother died. He blamed society and the boys he once claimed to love.

"My mother cried for me. I wanted 100 mothers to cry for their children," he later said. From June to November 1999, with his young accomplices, Javed abducted and killed 100 boys.

During his trial in February 2000, the court saw the evidence: photographs, victim belongings, and acid barrels. Still, Javed recanted, calling the murders a social experiment to raise awareness for runaways.

He mocked the court, made demands for comfort, and treated the process like a game. He even claimed he was chosen by God.

In the end, Javed and Sajid were sentenced to be hanged, chopped into 100 pieces, and dissolved in acid—a controversial sentence later overturned but still upheld as a death penalty.

On October 8, 2001, Javed and one accomplice were found dead in their cells. Officials claimed suicide by hanging. But autopsies revealed signs of torture, prompting conspiracy theories that he was silenced before he could expose powerful men involved in his crimes.

Whether suicide or murder, his story remains one of the darkest in Pakistan’s history.

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