
Former Pakistan envoy’s daughter murdered in Islamabad, 1 arrested
India Today
The daughter of Shaukat Mukadam, former Pakistan diplomat to South Korea and Kazakhstan, was murdered in Islamabad, as per a media report. The police have arrested one person in connection with the case.
A former Pakistani diplomat's daughter has been murdered here, according to a media report on Wednesday, just days after a major diplomatic row broke out between Pakistan and Afghanistan over the alleged abduction of the daughter of Afghanistan's Ambassador in Islamabad. Noor Mukadam, 27, daughter of Shaukat Mukadam, was found dead in the capital's upscale Sector F-7/4 area on Tuesday, Dawn newspaper reported. Mukadam has in the past served as Pakistan's ambassador to South Korea and Kazakhstan.
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