Court’s nod sought to record Pinky’s voice samples

KARACHI: The investigating officer (IO) in a narcotics case has approached a court, seeking permission to record the voice samples of alleged drug baroness Anmol Pinky and her three accomplices in prison.

Pinky was arrested last month in connection with two cases registered at the Garden police station pertaining to the possession of drugs and an unlicensed weapon. She had already been booked in multiple other criminal cases prior to her arrest.

Following her arrest, the police also held Pinky’s three accomplices — Zeeshan-ur-Rehman, Sohail-ur-Rehman and Muhammad Sameer — who are also in prison on judicial remand in the drug case.

The IO of the Garden police station has filed an application before a judicial magistrate (South), seeking directions for the jail authorities to allow the recording of voice samples of Pinky and her three accomplices in prison for voice-matching evaluation.

Explaining the need to obtain the suspects’ voice samples, the IO stated in the application that during the investigation, the suspects’ mobile phones were legally seized as case property and their preliminary analysis revealed “critical incriminating evidence” consisting of multiple audio recordings and voice messages exchanged between the suspects and external operators.

He submitted that it was essential to determine the identity of the speakers, for which standard voice samples of all four suspects were required to be formally recorded.

The IO requested the court to issue directions to the jail authorities to provide access to the suspects for the lawful recording of their standard voice samples and to allow the samples to be forwarded to the FSL for forensic examination.

Published in Dawn, June 8th, 2026