To avoid the possibility of the accused escaping, Islamabad’s Inspector General of Police (IGP) Qazi Jamilur Rehman asked the investigation team probing the murder to ask the government to put his name on the Exit Control List (ECL).
The Pakistan Police on Friday decided to ban the foreign travel of a man arrested in connection with the brutal murder of a former Pakistani diplomat’s daughter, a crime that has stunned the country. Afghan envoy in Islamabad.
Shaukat Mukadam’s 27-year-old daughter Noor Mukadam was beheaded at a house in the posh F-7/4 sector on July 20. Noor had died due to bullet injuries. Mukadam has previously served as Pakistan’s ambassador to South Korea and Kazakhstan.
The police arrested Zaheer Zakir Jafar, son of an influential businessman, who was a family acquaintance and in whose house the woman was found dead.
Jafar, who lived in the US and UK, was reportedly trying to escape from Pakistan when he was arrested, and to avoid any chance of his escape, Islamabad’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Qazi Jamilur Rehman Asked to ask the investigation team probing the murder. According to a police statement, the government will put his name in the Exit Control List (ECL).
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Rahman asked the police to obtain the criminal record of the suspect from other countries and complete the investigation at the earliest.
The IGP was quoted as saying in the statement, “The case should be closed at the earliest in the light of solid evidence.”
“All requirements for justice must be met so that the culprit is punished severely,” he said. Police have already recovered a knife and gun from the crime scene and collected evidence which shows the involvement of the suspect in the crime.
In the postmortem report, marks of assault have been found on the body of the victims. His throat was slit from the body, which shows the brutality of the crime.
Prime Minister Imran Khan directed the police to investigate the matter without fear or favour, so that the person involved in the murder could be given the harshest punishment.
The Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC), the representative body of the clerics, demanded that cases of violence and abuse against women and children be tried by anti-terrorism courts so that a speedy decision can be taken.
“Cases like Noor Muqadam and Usman Mirza bring disrepute to the nation and the nation,” the statement said.
Mirza is in police custody for allegedly harassing a young couple at a flat in Islamabad and stripping the woman, making a video of her and circulating it on social media.
In an application for registration of an FIR in the Noor Mukadam case, her father said that her “daughter has been brutally murdered with a sharp weapon and her head beheaded”.
The shocking killing came days after Silsila Alikhil, 26, the daughter of Afghanistan’s ambassador to Pakistan, Najibullah Alikhil, was allegedly kidnapped and tortured from Islamabad.
The incident triggered a major diplomatic dispute with the two neighboring countries recalling their ambassadors after the incident.
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