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SIALKOT: Unidentified men have reportedly defaced posters of Noor Mukadam, who was brutally murdered in the federal capital, displayed at the Ghanta Ghar in Sialkot.
A local media outlet shared picture of the defaced posters of Noor Mukadam on Instagram with caption, “Posters displayed at the Ghanta Ghar in Sialkot depicting Noor Mukadam against a mural she painted herself has been vandalised.”
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Noor, 27, daughter of former Pakistani diplomat Shaukat Mukadam, was found murdered at a residence in Islamabad’s upscale Sector F-7/4 on July 20.
Responding to a distress call regarding her murder, Islamabad police had arrested Zahir Jaffer, the alleged murderer, on the same night from his house where, according to investigators, he had allegedly committed the crime.
The gruesome incident sparked a nationwide campaign seeking justice for her, with #JusticeforNoor becoming a top trend on Twitter.
A first information report (FIR) was registered later the same day against Jaffer, who was arrested from the site of the murder, under Section 302 (premeditated murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the victim’s father.
According to the FIR, Shaukat Mukadam stated that he had gone to Rawalpindi on July 19 to buy a goat for Eidul Azha, while his wife had gone out to pick up clothes from her tailor. When he had returned home in the evening, the couple found their daughter Noor absent from their house in Islamabad.
They had found her cellphone number to be switched off, and started a search for her. Sometime later, Noor had called her parents to inform them that she was travelling to Lahore with some friends and would return in a day or two.
The complainant said he had later received a call from the suspect, son of Zakir Jaffer, whose family were the ex-diplomat’s acquaintances. The suspect had informed Shaukat that Noor was not with him, the FIR said.
At around 10pm on July 20, the victim’s father had received a call from Kohsar police station, informing him that Noor had been murdered.
Police had subsequently taken the complainant to Zahir’s house in Sector F-7/4 where he discovered that his “daughter has been brutally murdered with a sharp-edged weapon and beheaded”, according to the FIR.