ISLAMABAD: SCP, while dismissing the appeal of Zakir Jaffer, upheld his death sentence for killing Noor Mukadam here on Wednesday ( 26th Nov, 2025).
27-year-old Noor Mukadam was murdered in Zakir Jaffer’s residence here in the month of July 2021. Next year Zakir Jaffer was awarded death sentence by a Islamabad trial court. In the month of May 3-judge SC bench upheld the death sentence. In November, 2025 Zakir Jaffer’s review petition was taken up by the apex court and upheld the capital punishment.
Justice Ali Baqar Najafi, pointing towards cohabitation sans marriage maintained that the case of Noor Mukadam was result of vice spreading in society. In his additional note he stated: “I had a privilege of going through the majority view to which I agreed in toto, however, the following is the additional note of the judgement signed by me on 20.05.2025.
“As already mentioned in the majority judgment that the FIR was registered on the complaint of Shaukat Ali Muqaddam that his daughter went mission on 19.07.2021 and on the same day at 10.00 pm, he received a call from the police station that his daughter has been found dead at the residence of the petitioner. The petitioner was therefore nominated as a single accused but later in the supplementary statement, Muhammad Jamil etc., were also implicated.
“The petitioner was therefore nominated as a single accused but later in the supplementary statement, Muhammad Jamil etc., were also implicated. The petitioner was concurrently sentenced to death by the trial court as well as the Appellate Court under section 302(b) PPC as Tazir and also under section 376 PPC by the trial court as well as the Appellate Court under section 302(b) PPC as Tazir and also under section 376 PPC by the trial court against which he filed this petition by taking various grounds.
“As far as delay in lodging the FIR at 11.30 pm of an occurrence at 9.00 pm is concerned, it has been rightly held in the impugned judgement that on 20.07.2021 Abid Latif (PW-2) had reached the place of occurrence at 10.00 pm and Basharat Rehman (PW-3) reached the place of occurrence at 9.30 pm after when he received a call at 9.00 pm. Likewise , Mst. Aqsa Rani (PW-4) also stated at about the same time she reached the place of occurrence and therefore, the statement of the complainant of receiving the information that he was informed about the murder of his daughter is well corroborated.
“Obviously, the occurrence in which a lady was beheaded in a posh area of Islamabad, the police was required to be extra conscious and had rightly waited for her dear and near to come forward. It is the prosecution version that the therapy workers had arrived at 9.00 pm who had tried to overpower the petitioner, during which one of them was seriously injured but it is natural that after reaching the place of occurrence the complainant (PW-8) being the real father of the victim required some time and extra ordinary nerves to absorb the extreme shock of his life and then draft the complaint for registration of FIR (Exh.PA/1). In this background there is no element of concoction and deliberation to falsely implicate the petitioner...
“…I also observed that the present case is a direct result of a vice spreading in the upper society which we know as living relationship in which societal compulsions are ignored so as to defy not only the law of the land but also the personal law under Islam Sharia which is a direct revolt against Almighty Allah. The young generation must note its horrible consequences such as in the present case which is also a topic for the social reformist, to discuss in their circles”.
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