Zahir's fingerprints not found on murder weapon

ISLAMABAD: The Noor Mukadam murder case took another turn as the investigation officer told the honourable court that the knife used in the murder of Noor Mukadam did not have the fingerprints of Zahir Jaffer, the prime accused in the case.

According to Investigation Officer (IO), during the case hearing under the chair of Atta Rabbani, Judge, District and Sessions Court, Islamabad, Zahir was included in the investigation because Noor's body was recovered at his home. During a cross-examination by Sikandar Zulqarnain, the defendant's lawyer, he claimed that no eyewitnesses had come before the police other from the forensic report. Furthermore, the IO testified that Jaffer's jeans were clean of blood spots.

At a house in Islamabad's posh F-7/4 area, Noor Mukadam, the daughter of a former Pakistani diplomat, was found beheaded. 

Like no other recent crime against women, this one had sparked public indignation and dominated headlines. On the day of the murder, the main suspect was taken into custody and turned over to the police after being tied up by employees of a counselling centre with which he was affiliated. Since then, he had been held in the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.