Noor Mukadam Murder: Parents of Zahir Jaffer arrested in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD, 25 July: Police have arrested the parents of Zahir Jaffer, the suspect accused of killing Noor Mukadam, a daughter of a former Pakistani ambassador to South Korea Shaukat Mukadam.

This was revealed by Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Muhammad Hamaza Shafqaat in a statement issued in the early hours of Sunday.

The arrest came hours after the suspect was presented before a court. The murder and beheading of Noor Mukadam has sparked nationwide outrage in Pakistan, with thousands of people calling on the authorities to take the case to logical end .

The post-mortem report of the Mukadam was released on Friday, stating that she was beheaded after being murdered in Islamabad.

It is pertinent to mention here that on July 20, a woman in her twenties, reportedly a daughter of a former ambassador, had been put to death allegedly by her own friend in the vicinity of Kohsar police station.

Kohsar police had confirmed the incident and said they have detained the alleged friend Zahir Jaffar, behind the murder of the former ambassador’s daughter Noor Mukadam.

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The interior ministry has decided to put the alleged killer of Mukadam – the daughter of an ex-ambassador – on the no-fly list at the request of the Islamabad Police, it emerged Saturday.

According to sources, the passport of Zahir Jaffer has been confiscated by the authorities to stop him from fleeing abroad. The gruesome killer of ex-ambassador Shaukat Mukadam’s daughter Noor Mukadam, 27, has shocked the federal capital with calls of exemplary punishment to the alleged murderer, who is a son of a business tycoon. The team investigating the incident recorded the statement of the mother of the victim and grilled the psychotherapists, who were called first by some family friend instead of calling the police but their responses could not satisfy the investigating team.