Drug queen Pinky arrested after deaths in Sindh politicians' families

Alleged drug queen, Anmol alias Pinky, was arrested after a number of high-profile deaths were reported in the families of Sindh’s politicians as the deceased were suspected to have consumed drugs supplied by her network, a report said.

The operation was carried out by a civilian intelligence agency following complaints of the deaths, two officials said, who claimed to possess a long list of her clients, including the children of lawmakers, several legislators, bureaucrats, actors and actresses and media persons.

"The voice messages recovered from her phone are an explosive tell-all,” one official privy to the development said.

Pinky’s operations spanned across Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and other cities. Although she had long been on the radar of law-enforcement agencies, no serious effort was made to apprehend her until the drug played havoc with the families of the political elite.

One of the grieving families took upon itself to wage a fight against those spreading the menace, said an official who mentioned three such incidents of deaths within the political families which are suspected to have occurred due to drugs. The report said that it is withholding details of the affected families.

Pinky, a 31-year-old woman now at the centre of one of Pakistan’s most consequential narcotics investigations in recent years, is described by police as the operational head of a cocaine production and distribution network spanning Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Multan and parts of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), allegedly serving elite clients in posh neighbourhoods of multiple cities.

Daughter of a taxi driver, Murad Bakhsh, Pinky reportedly dropped out of school in the eighth grade and moved to Lahore at fourteen to pursue a modelling career. Investigators allege her first husband, a lawyer now reportedly residing in Malaysia, introduced her to cocaine manufacturing. After separating from him, she allegedly built her own production and supply infrastructure, later marrying a Lahore-based police officer of deputy superintendent of police (DSP) rank - a claim that has triggered significant controversy.

Police records show 10 to 14 narcotics cases registered against her since 2021, beginning with a case in Karachi. She was also named in Lahore after her brother Riaz Baloch was arrested in a drug trafficking case and identified her during interrogation. Despite this, Lahore police never formally declared her a proclaimed offender.

The official account states she was arrested on May 12, 2026 from an apartment in Karachi’s Garden area, where 1,540 grams of prepared cocaine, 6,970 grams of precursor chemicals and a 9mm Glock pistol were recovered. However, Pinky told the court she was actually detained in Lahore’s Nawab Town around 22 days ago and held in custody before being formally produced in Karachi.

Her alleged operation sold cocaine in two grades: "White Coke” at Rs25,000 per gram and "Golden Category” at Rs40,000 per gram. Distribution relied on female couriers transporting consignments by train and bus from Lahore to Karachi, with last-mile delivery via motorcycle riders coordinated through WhatsApp. A forensic examination of her phone reportedly identified 869 contacts and transactions worth Rs30 million.

During interrogation, Pinky alleged that an official named Ahsan extorted Rs50 million plus monthly payments of Rs2.5 to 3 million from her, and that a serving DSP, her second husband, purchased two bungalows using her money. A murder case has also been registered against her over the death of a drug user in Baghdadi Karachi on May 9.

A Joint Investigation Team is now examining the network’s financial and institutional protection structure.