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ATC sends Zainab murder accused on 14-day police remand

LAHORE: A special anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Wednesday handed Imran Ali Naqshbandi, the accused in the rape and murder case of Zainab to police on a 14-day physical remand.   Imran will be presented again before the court on February 8. Judge Sajjad Ali granted the 14-day long physical remand in order to allow time for the police to match Imran's DNA with seven other victims. During proceedings, Imran admitted to the rape and murder of Zainab. Responding to the honourable Judge Ali’s question about the accused man’s missing beard, the prosecutor said that the man had shaved it off after murdering Zainab. Zainab was kidnapped from near her aunt’s house in Kasur on January 4. Her body was discovered in a garbage heap five days later. On Tuesday, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif in a news conference confirmed that Imran had murdered seven-year-old Zainab, referring to him as a “serial killer”. “He [Imran] admitted to all his crimes in a polygraph te
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