By Muhammad Luqman
A serial killer of eight children has been executed at a prison in Lahore, the eastern city of Pakistan on Wednesday after a court rejected request for his public hanging.
Imran Ali was hanged in the presence of the father of 7-year-old Zainab whose rape and murder shocked Pakistan in January this year.
Imran was arrested two weeks after he threw Zainab’s body into a garbage dump in another eastern city of Kasur near India-Pakistan border.
After his arrest, Imran confessed to the other murders and was convicted.
An anti-terrorism court judge Sh Sajjad Ahmad on Friday issued black warrants for Imran Ali convicted for the rape and murder Zainab.
Zainab’s father Amin Ansari after witnessing the execution expressed gratitude to the judiciary, government and investigators for giving them speedy justice.
Imran Ali was executed by in Lahore`s Kot Lakhpat jail at 5:30am on Wednesday.
According to media reports, an ambulance arrived at the spot, along with Imran Ali’s brother and two of his friends.
Jail authorities arranged a 45-minute meeting for the convict and his family on Tuesday, according to Pakistani media.
Ali had confessed to raping nine girls, including Zainab , whose body was found from a garbage heap on January 9 after she went missing from her aunt’s house on January 4.
On January 23, Ali was arrested. In February, the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) sentenced him to 21 counts of death, three life sentences and 23 years in jail.
The rapist was executed in the presence of Magistrate Adil Sarwar and Zainab’s father Muhammad Amin.
Zainab’s father while talking to media ,revealed that the Imran Ali was not ashamed of his heinous crime, as there was no signs of fear or repentance on his face at the time when he was brought to be hanged.
