Headlines 0900 30th January 2018

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will hear today a suo motu case pertaining to the rape and murder of four-year-old Asma in Mardan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar, a three-member bench will hear the case at the principal seat in Islamabad.

On January 26, the chief justice took suo motu notice of the rape and murder of little Asma and sought a report from the IG Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The minor girl went missing on January 13 from Jandarpar Gujjar Garhi area of Mardan and her body was found from sugarcane fields in the same area on January 17.

According to the post-mortem report, she was subjected to sexual assault and torture before her captors strangled her to death.

The police have so far failed to nab the culprit behind the grisly incident, which came to the light following the rape and murder of seven-year-old Zainab in Kasur.

Around two hundred people have been interrogated and their DNA samples were collected, but the culprits are still at large.