Satisfied over justice being served: Zainab’s father

LAHORE: The father of a seven-year-old Zainab, who was found raped and murdered in Kasur in January, has said they are satisfied that justice has been served to them.

Zainab’s father Muhammad Ameen said this while speaking over the phone on Geo News show Geo Pakistan on Wednesday.

He also spoke about the country’s constitutional institutions, saying changes were needed in the system and those people should be recruited who make decisions made on the basis of merit.

Only the actual culprits should be punished and not any innocent person, the murdered minor’s father added.

“I am satisfied that he [convict] was punished for his crimes. This should be a lesson for all other criminals that they will also meet a similar fate,” Zainab's father Ameen Ansari told media outside the prison following the execution.

Imran Ali, who raped and murdered the minor, was hanged at Kot Lakhpat Jail. He was executed in the presence of both Magistrate Adil Sarwar and the deceased's father, who arrived early morning to the prison.

The convict was awarded a death sentence on 21 counts after he was convicted of the rape and murder of at least eight minor girls, including Zainab.

On Tuesday, jail authorities arranged the convict's last meeting with his family, which lasted for some 45 minutes.

Zainab was kidnapped on January 4 from near her aunt’s house in Kasur and, five days later, was found dead in a garbage heap.

On January 23, authorities had claimed to have apprehended Imran — a serial killer involved in other similar crimes — through a DNA match.

Imran’s DNA also matched the samples taken from seven other minor girls who were abused and murdered earlier in Kasur, police had confirmed.

The then-suspect had confessed to his heinous crimes following his arrest.