Tag: Mayra Zulfiqar

  • British-Pakistani Mayra Zulfiqar’s murderer gets arrested

    British-Pakistani Mayra Zulfiqar’s murderer gets arrested

    Zahir Jadoon, a resident of Lahore, had confessed to murdering a British-Pakistani woman Mayra Zulfiqar on May 3.

    Police in Lahore has formally arrested Zahir Jadoon in relation to the murder of Mayra, a law graduate from London.

    Zahir Jadoon and Saad Butt were two of the four accused named in the murder in the first information report (FIR) filed by Mohammad Nazeer, a relative of Zulfiqar.

    Muhammad Zulfiqar, Mayra’s father, had appealed to the prime ministers of both Pakistan and Britain to help him get justice for his daughter.

    24-year-old Mayra Zulfiqar was found dead in Lahore. She had been threatened by two men who both wanted to marry her.

  • ‘I still can’t believe my sister is gone,’ says Mayra’s brother

    ‘I still can’t believe my sister is gone,’ says Mayra’s brother

    In a recent interview given to BBC, the family of Mayra Zulfiqar, a young woman from London, murdered in Pakistan, appeals for justice.

    “I still can’t believe that my sister is gone. It seems like a nightmare, that I am going to wake up and hug her,” says Moiz Muhammad, brother of Mayra.

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    “Everyday I wake up and I just can’t believe my sister is gone,” says Moiz, sobbing.

    Her brother added that Mayra had dreams and she wanted to help the poor. “She was a caring person,” he said.

    Muhammad Zulfiqar, Mayra’s father with tears in his eyes questioned, ” What have these terrible people done to her? Why have they behaved so awfully? What wrong did she ever do ?”

    With eyes filled with pain and tears rolling down his cheeks, Zulfiqar appeals from the premier’s of both Pakistan and London to help him bring justice to his daughter. “I’m running between different offices. The police aren’t listening to me properly,” says Zulfiqar.

    In report published by Samaa, Zahid Jadoon, a resident of Lahore, has confessed to murdering a British-Pakistani woman on May 3.

    Mayra Zulfiqar, 24, was found in a pool of blood in a flat in Lahore.

    The law graduate from London had been threatened by two men who both wanted to marry her but she had rejected both of them.

  • Suspect says ‘was sleeping’ when Mayra was shot dead

    Suspect says ‘was sleeping’ when Mayra was shot dead

    The main suspect in the murder of a Pakistan-origin British woman in the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) neighbourhood earlier this month, appeared before the police on Monday to record his statement.

    In his statement, Saad Ameer Butt, one of the two suspects, said he was sleeping at his house the night Mayra Zulfiqar was shot dead.

    He said he did not kill Mayra and that the deceased was a friend. “I never attempted to kidnap her”, he told the investigation team.

    He further informed the team that he had even discussed the matter with an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) when Mayra was alive. She had accused him of trying to kidnap her.

    24-year-old girl, Mayra Zulfiqar, was found dead in Lahore on May 3. She had been threatened by two men who both wanted to marry her.

    Zahir Jadoon and Saad Butt were two of the four accused of being behind the murder in the first information report (FIR) filed by Mohammad Nazeer, a relative of Zulfiqar.

  • ‘You won’t be able to escape, I will kill you’ says Mayra’s alleged killer

    ‘You won’t be able to escape, I will kill you’ says Mayra’s alleged killer

    A 24-year-old girl, Mayra Zulfiqar, was found dead in Lahore on Monday. She had recently been threatened by two men who both wanted to marry her.

    Prior to her brutal murder, she had asked police for protection after accusing a man of abducting her at gunpoint.

    In Pakistan, the chief investigating officer in the murder inquiry told the BBC that police teams were targeting addresses in Islamabad and Lahore. So far no arrest had been made.

    In a police report filed before her murder, Ms Zulfiqar named and accused a man of abducting her at gunpoint and attempting to sexually assault her.

    She said she managed to run away by alerting people around but the man threatened her, saying “You won’t be able to escape, I will kill you.”

    Mayra’s uncle Mohammad Nazeer found her body after receiving a phone call from her father, who lives in London, to say she had been killed.

    The initial postmortem report said that Mayra had received two bullets, one to her neck and another to her arm.

    Mayra Zulfiqar’s funeral took place in Lahore, while a special memorial service has been held at a mosque in Hounslow, west London. Her brother Faizan Muhammad said his father had left for Pakistan

    The deceased woman had arrived from the UK, where her family is settled, some two months back and shared the upper portion of the rented house with a friend. Police have taken her housemate into custody as part of the probe.

    Late on Monday, Defence-B police registered a First Information Report (FIR) against two purported friends of Mayra on murder charges on the complaint of the deceased woman’s uncle.

    In a statement, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said, “our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time. We are urgently seeking more information from the local authorities.”