ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): The Supreme Court of Pakistan has upheld the death sentence of Zhir Jaffar in the Noor Mukadam murder case.
Noor Mukadam was a Pakistani-Jordanian woman who was a victim of murder. She was 27 years old and the daughter of a former Pakistani diplomat, Shaukat Mukadam.
She was murdered at a mansion in an upscale neighborhood, Sector F-7/4, of Islamabad, on 20 July 2021. Noor was held hostage for two days, tortured with a knuckleduster, raped, and then decapitated with a knife.
The murder suspect was identified as 27-year-old Zahir Jaffer, who was arrested at the scene of the crime and taken to the police station. The parents and household staff of Jaffer were arrested for hiding evidence and complicity because Noor made multiple escape attempts, but the household staff refused to permit her to leave.
The murder was premeditated, as Jaffer later confessed to police that he intended to kill Noor if she refused to accept his marriage proposal.
Zahir Jaffer was sentenced to death for the murder of Noor Mukadam by the Islamabad session court in February 2022, while Jaffer’s guards, Iftikhar and Mohammad Jan, were given ten years of imprisonment
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