Javed Iqbal: The Untold Story Of A Serial Kille... Apr 2026

A judge famously sentenced Iqbal to be executed in the same manner as his victims—strangled with a chain, cut into 100 pieces, and dissolved in acid. However, Iqbal and his accomplice were found dead in their prison cells in 2001 before the sentence could be carried out; their deaths were officially ruled as suicides. The Film: Kukri (2023)

Iqbal lured vulnerable street children and runaways to his home in Lahore. He strangled them with a chain, dismembered their bodies, and dissolved the remains in vats of hydrochloric acid before disposing of them in a local river. Javed Iqbal: The Untold Story of A Serial Kille...

Originally titled Javed Iqbal: The Untold Story of A Serial Killer , the biographical crime film was eventually released as after facing significant censorship challenges in Pakistan. A judge famously sentenced Iqbal to be executed