Zulfikar Wassan confesses to killing teenage girl Rimsha: police

KARACHI: Zulfikar Wassan, the key suspect in Rimsha Wassan murder case, has confessed to killing the teenage girl whose killing triggered an outpouring of condemnation countrywide, ARY News reported on Wednesday.

According to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Khairpur Umar Tufail, Wassan murdered Rimsha under the pretext of ‘honour’. The police said that Wassan had also killed a man named Javed Jaskani and a girl Babra Wassan in 2012.

He also murdered Amir Tumrani, a clerk of Khairpur’s Shah Abdul Latif University, some years ago, said the SSP.

According to Police, Zulfikar Wassan had also murdered one Abdul Wahab Morejo during the 2013 general elections. Morejo was deployed at a polling camp when Wassan opened an indiscriminate fire resulting in his death.

SSP Tufail also informed that he had fired a rocket at a rally of Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) in Khairpur’s Kamb area during the 2013 elections season. A person namely Abdul Sattar Shanbani was killed in the attack.

Zulfikar Wassan is facing charges of six murders and 22 cases of snatching and vandalism, the SSP said.

Earlier in the day, the police had arrested Zulfikar Wassan from village Nawab Wassan in Khairpur.

Wassan, along with his accomplices, stormed inside a house in Khairpur and kidnapped 13-year-old girl Rimsha a few days ago. Her mother informed journalists that she had approached the local political leaders and police but failed to get justice.

Police on Tuesday had also arrested a cook of special assistant to chief minister Sindh, Nawab Wassan, over his alleged links with the key suspect in the murder of Rimsha.