The person who made the headlines in Pakistan on Jan 1st, 2000 wasn't anyone other than a serial killer named Javed Iqbal. Javed handed himself to the authorities in a walk-in surrender at a newspaper office. Read further about the motive behind Javed's 100 brutal murders.
Javed Iqbal was a well-settled individual who ran his father's business. There wasn't much going on with his life until one day, Javed craved massage or something else, leading him to appoint a boy to massage at home. Shockingly, Javed tried raping the boy (or raped him). The boy picked up a pistol which was present at Javed's place and hit it at Javed's head. The boy attacked Javed only in his defence but that injury lead to Javed being admitted to the hospital for 5 months. Meanwhile, Javed's mother died. Javed felt that it was the fault of the boy that he wasn't with his mother in her last moments. Javed's rage took over his mind and he decided to bereave 100 children of their mothers.
Javed's gruesome process of murdering his victims started with capturing children of age between 6 and 16 and then raping them. He would then kill each victim and then dismember their body. At last, he would dissolve body parts in acid and throw those parts in the river to vanish any sign of murder. He repeated this process exactly 100 times.
After doing his thing, Javed himself informed DIG Lahore about the murders. Police investigated and surprisingly concluded that Javed was innocent. After not getting the necessary attention from the police, Javed wrote to a newspaper in Lahore precisely on Dec 31st, 1999. The letter included pictures of 75 children he murdered, and a testimony from Javed accepting the crime.
Police departments and authorities were quick to react and launched an operation across the whole of Punjab. Police couldn't find Javed anywhere. Javed escaped every time police tried to reach him. The testimony of Javed and pictures of the children were everywhere on the news. The police found a drum full of human body parts and acid at Javed's house. At last, Javed himself walked into a newspaper office and surrendered. The judge ordered Javed to be persecuted in the same manner as he did his victims. The Judge even called for public punishment in front of the parents of the victims but that verdict was discarded by the government as it didn't fall under the constitution. Javed was sentenced to death. However, after a few days, both Javed and his inmate were found dead in their cell.