• She is accused of selling narcotics worth millions of rupees daily, yet she doesn’t have a bank account • Police say she operates benami accounts and SIMs illegally issued under others’ names
KARACHI: Despite being on the law enforcement agencies’ radar for years, 31-year-old aspiring model-turned-drug ‘queenpin’ Anmol Pinky operated her nationwide network from Lahore and Karachi with impunity for years. She, along with her brothers and other accomplices, had built a network that used WhatsApp and social media to supply narcotics, particularly cocaine, to their clients in upscale areas.
Since she was already booked in multiple criminal cases prior to her recent arrest by a team of Karachi police and a civilian intelligence agency, the police had her Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC) blocked. But this did not stop her from doing business as she used ‘benami’ accounts and SIMs issued under someone else’s names to stay in touch with her network and customers.
Her purported voice notes, widely circulated on social media, suggested that she was not afraid of law enforcement as she was heard challenging them to arrest her, claiming her network would continue even after her arrest or death.
Officials familiar with her interrogation said she lived with her mother and sister-in-law in Lahore’s Khayaban-i-Zafar Society. In Karachi, she had a residence in Gulshan-i-Iqbal and a family home in Baloch Para, Jahangir Road. She belonged to a family of modest means. Her father, Murad Bakhsh, a Kolachi Baloch, was a taxi driver by profession, while her mother originally hailed from Punjab.
She left her studies when she was in eighth grade and moved to Lahore to pursue a modelling career. During her struggling days, she frequented the office of a film director to get acting or modelling gigs, where she met her first husband, who was a lawyer by profession.
It was her first husband and brothers who brought her into the world of crime, as she initially worked for the husband to traffic cocaine from Lahore to Karachi. She started building her own network after getting separated from her first husband and later tied the knot with a retired police official. Her family — mother and brothers — also shifted to Lahore, where her elder brother established a restaurant and other businesses, which later flourished.
She dealt specifically in cocaine and built her own so-called brand. As cocaine entered the country through smuggling networks, she learned to increase the quantity by mixing certain chemicals/drugs without compromising the “quality” to boost her profit.
Investigators estimated that she sold drugs worth millions of rupees daily, and her clients included important personalities and students. They conceded that a portion of her earnings went to certain law enforcement officials for protection.
Father cuts ties
Relations between Relations between Pinky and her father reportedly deteriorated to the extent that he published advertisements in two Urdu-language newspapers in 2022 to dissociate himself from his daughter, according to one of her neighbours. Her father disowned her because she “continuously disobeyed him, behaved arbitrarily and failed to respect him”. Also, citing her disappearance from home for five years, along with other reasons, he declared that he was dissociating himself from her.
String of criminal cases
The police said there were more than a dozen cases against Pinky, including two registered by the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF).
In some cases, she has been named as a co-accused alongside her brothers and another woman.
Sources familiar with the legal proceedings said her elder brother had been booked in several cases at different police stations in Karachi, where another woman, Manzoor Fatima, was also nominated as a co-accused.
In one such case registered at the Boat Basin police station under Section 265-H(i) of the Criminal Procedure Code, Pinky’s elder brother was acquitted by the relevant court in 2025.
In another case registered at the Gizri police station, Pinky was declared an absconder while the remaining accused were acquitted.
In a case registered by ANF Clifton, Pinky’s another brother, Mohammed Nasir, was acquitted while she was declared an absconder. The ANF had registered the case in 2019.
Apart from narcotics-related cases, police have also registered a murder case against Pinky. According to the FIR on May 9, 2026, the body of an unidentified “drug addict” was found on a footpath near a school in Baghdadi. A packet of narcotics was allegedly recovered from his pocket bearing the slogan: ‘Queen Madam Pinky, Don, Nam Hi Kafi Hai, Enjoy.’
The FIR alleged that the drugs sold by Pinky led to the death of the unidentified man.
Pinky is currently on a three-day police remand.
Published in Dawn, May 15th, 2026
