TODAY'S PAPER | JANUARY 29, 2020

Justice for Zainab: Timeline of the Kasur rape,

murder case that gripped the nation
Dawn.com | October 17, 2018

Children in Karachi offer prayers for Zainab Ansari. — File

Zainab Amin was a name unfamiliar to all Pakistanis apart from the six-year-old family's up until
January, 2018.

She went missing on Jan 4 and five days later, a police constable deputed to trace the girl recovered
her body from a heap of trash near the Shahbaz Khan Road.

Police said the girl seemed to have been killed four or five days earlier.

Being the 12th such incident to occur within a 10 kilometre radius in Kasur in one year, Zainab's
rape and murder had sparked outrage and protests across the country.

The heinous nature of the crime had seen immediate riots break out in Kasur — in which two people
were killed — while #JusticeforZainab became a rallying cry for an end to violence against children.

Below is a timeline of the case that had shook the nation and forced the government into action in
finding the serial rapist and killer.
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Timeline
of the Zainab Amin rape-murder case

Jan 4
Six-year-old Zainab Amin
Jan 9 goes missing in Kasur.
Zainab's body is
Her family files an FIR a
recovered from a trash
day later.
heap by a police officer.
Riots break out in Kasur.
Jan
DNA testing of crime
Jan scene samples indicate
Police declare arrest of culprit involved in at
prime suspect 24-year- least seven other similar
old Imran Ali in rape- cases.
murder case.

Feb
ATC hands Imran Ali
Feb death sentence on four
Imran Ali challenges his
counts in Zainab case
conviction in the Lahore
following a four-day jail
High Court.
trial at Kot Lakhpat Jail,
Lahore. Ali pleads not
guilty.
March 20
LHC rejects Imran Ali's
appeal, upholds trial June 12
court's conviction. Supreme Court rejects
Imran Ali's appeal
against conviction.
Oct 10
President Arif Alvi
rejects Imran Ali's plea Oct 12
for clemency. ATC issues death
warrant for Imran Ali in
 warrant for Imran Ali in
Zainab rape-murder

Oct 17 case.

Imran Ali is hanged at Kot Lakhpat Jail.