The Foreign Office has expressed shock over the murder of a former Pakistani diplomat’s daughter, hoping that the law enforcement agencies would bring the culprit to book, reported 24NewsHD TV channel. 

Spokesman of Foreign Office Zahid Hafiz Chaudhri in a tweet on Wednesday expressed his grief over the murder of ex-diplomat Shaukat Muqaddam’s daughter. The FO hoped that the culprit would soon be brought to justice.

https://twitter.com/Zhchaudhri/status/1417762090467708929

Police sources informed that the throat of Noor Muqaddam, daughter of former diplomat Shaukat Muqaddam, was slit open with a sharp weapon in Islamabad’s area of F4 in the precincts of Kohisar police station. Her killer, Zahir Jafar, was arrested from the scene of crime. 

Sources said that the killer was mentally unstable and he ran away from a mental hospital. 

A security guard informed the police about the murder of the ex-diplomat’s daughter. 

The body of the deceased woman was shifted to a local hospital. 

Reporter Usman Javed