April 14, 2026 06:56 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
'ECI deviated from Bihar procedure': Supreme Court raises concerns over voter deletion in Bengal SIR | Noida workers’ protest turns violent: Stones pelted, vehicles damaged over wage hike demand | Oil prices jump above $103 a barrel as US moves to block Iran-linked shipping | I don’t care if they come back or not, says Trump after Iran talks collapse | Legendary singer Asha Bhosle suffers cardiac arrest, hospitalised | Big boost to India–Mauritius ties: S. Jaishankar hands over 90 e-buses | Middle East tension: Iranian delegation arrives in Islamabad for major talks, 10,000 security personnel deployed | Ranveer Singh visits RSS HQ amid Dhurandhar 2 success, triggers speculation | ED raids ex-Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee; SSC scam resurfaces ahead of polls | Amit Shah promises UCC, ₹3,000 aid per month for women and youth in BJP’s Bengal manifesto

Zainab murder case in Pakistan: Two suspects arrested

| | Jan 20, 2018, at 09:32 pm

Kasur, Jan 20 (IBNS): Police have arrested two suspects in the Zainab murder case in Pakistan, media reports said on Saturday.

Sources told Dawn News, investigators found an empty box near the body of the girl and one of the suspects arrested on Friday was identified by the help of a forensic examination. The suspect had already been booked in six rape cases. The other suspect is his brother who is also booked in some similar cases.

The rape and murder of Zainab left people shocked across Pakistan.

Protests hit Kasur, demanding arrest of culprits.

Zainab Amin was kidnapped on Jan 4.

Her body was found in a garbage bin on Jan 9.

The sources told Dawn News on the arrests that the two brothers were residents of the College Road area near the Fruit and Vegetable Market from where a minor rape survivor was found in November.

Political leaders, across the nation, condemned the incident.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.