Six year old Zainab and her rapist and murderer Imran Ali |
Zainab’s father Amin Ansari was also present in the premises of the jail. Tight security arrangements were made around Kot Lakhpat Jail before the execution of Imran Ali.
Zainab was found dead on January 9, 2018 in Kasur district near Lahore several days after her disappearance . She was raped and killed brutally .Her body was recovered from a heap of garbage near her house five days later.Imran was arrested two weeks after he committed the crime that ignited nationwide protests in which two people died from police firing.
The police later collected DNA samples of 1,187 people from January 12 to January 23 to trace the accused. On January 23, the police arrested Imran, a neighbour of Zainab, as his DNA matched not only with the DNA samples collected from the body of Zainab but also at least seven other victims.
However, on the next day, Imran confessed to raping and killing Ayesha Asif, 7 [died on January 7, 2017], Eman Fatima, 7, [died on February 24, 2017], Noor Fatima,7 [died on April 11 2017], Laiba Saleem, 7 [died on July 8, 2017], Zainab Amin, 7, [died on January 4, 2018] and others.