{"id":2800,"date":"2026-10-16T19:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:03:45","slug":"body-of-saudi-based-man-abducted-in-karachi-found-suspect-confesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2800","title":{"rendered":"Body of Saudi-based man abducted in Karachi found, suspect confesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Police have recovered the body of Zainul Abideen, a young man living in Saudi Arabia who was allegedly abducted from Karachi\u2019s Steel Town area, while a suspect, identified as Faisal, has reportedly confessed to the crime during interrogation, according to sources.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The body was found stuffed in a sack and dumped at an isolated location, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Zainul Abideen, who worked as a tailor in Saudi Arabia, had returned to Karachi to visit his parents.<\/p>\n<p>According to his father, he left home on a motorcycle on October 14 but did not return.<\/p>\n<p>After an unsuccessful search, the family registered a case at the Steel Town police station, alleging that he had been abducted.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s father had alleged that the kidnappers contacted the family by phone and demanded Rs700,000 in ransom, instructing them to bring the money to a specified location. The family reached the designated spot, but no one arrived, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that his son\u2019s slippers and mobile phone were later left outside their home and that the family received threats to kill the young man.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, police said a severed human hand had been recovered and sent for DNA testing. It remains unclear whether the recovered hand is linked to Zainul Abideen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have recovered the body of Zainul Abideen, a young man living in Saudi Arabia who was allegedly abducted from Karachi\u2019s Steel Town area, while a suspect, identified as Faisal, has reportedly confessed to the crime during interrogation, according to sources. The body was found stuffed in a sack and dumped at an isolated location, sources said. Zainul Abideen, who worked as a tailor in Saudi Arabia, had returned to Karachi to visit his parents. According to his father, he left home on a motorcycle on October 14 but did&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}