Shock and outrage over the ‘rape’ and murder of 3-year-old Sakina in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD — The disappearance of a three-year-old girl in Islamabad has taken a terrifying turn, with police arresting her brother-in-law after CCTV footage allegedly showed him running away with the child shortly before she disappeared.
Little Sakina’s body was later recovered from a rain drain near Jhangi Sayedan on the tip of a suspect, police said, as investigators upgraded the case from a missing child report to an alleged rape and murder investigation.
According to Islamabad police, the accused has been identified as Kashif, who is Sakina’s elder sister’s husband. Both got married a year and a half ago. The police started a detailed investigation after obtaining five-day physical remand of the accused.
The brutal accused who killed a three-year-old girl, (her own sister) after raping her, was arrested in less than two hours.
On the report of the disappearance of a three-year-old girl, police station Noon immediately registered a case and started investigation.
DIG Islamabad Ali Waseem SP Industrial Zone…
— Islamabad Police (@ICT_Police) September 23, 2026
The case started on Tuesday, September 22, when Sakina was allegedly playing outside her house in Jhangi Saidan around 2 am. His mother later went out to check on him and found that the child was missing.
The family initially searched the surrounding area on their own before reaching the police. The mother later filed a missing person case, fearing that her daughter had been abducted. The police said that they were reported missing around 11 pm.
Officials said that seven police teams were formed to search for the girl. Investigators searched the deserted areas around the settlement, working on the assumption that a three-year-old child could not have traveled far. The police also believed that Sakina had left with an acquaintance of hers.
The investigation was complicated by the conditions of the area. Jhangi Sayedan is described by the police as a slum where many residents work as laborers or domestic workers. Sakina’s mother also used to work in people’s homes. Since most homes in the area did not have CCTV cameras, investigators initially had limited footage to work with.
One development was reportedly from CCTV footage recorded outside the home of a computer science professor in nearby Shams Town. The footage was recorded at around 2:15 p.m., the last time Sakina was seen playing outside. The footage allegedly shows the three-year-old holding the hand of a young man, believed to be around 23 or 24 years old, as he walks down the street.
Police have started identifying the people seen in the footage. The person accompanying Sakina has been identified as her brother-in-law Kashif.
What investigators found particularly significant was that the suspect had allegedly joined police teams as they searched deserted areas for Sakina. Police said they initially did not suspect him. However, after obtaining CCTV footage and interrogating him, investigators said he failed to give satisfactory answers.
The police also noticed a distinct change in his clothing. The CCTV footage allegedly shows him wearing trousers and a shirt, while he was wearing a shalwar kameez while searching for the missing girl.
The suspect later led investigators to the location where the child’s body was left, police said. The police said that the body of the girl was recovered from the rain drain near Jhangi Saidan. According to investigators, the child was found without clothes.
The police further claimed that the accused told the investigators that he killed Sakina as he feared that she would return home and tell her family about the alleged attack. SP Industrial Area said that the investigators recovered the trouser and shirt which the accused was allegedly wearing at the time of the incident.
Police alleged that the suspect took a drawstring from an old salwar lying near the crime scene and used it to strangle the child. Sakina’s body was handed over to her family before an autopsy was conducted. DNA and other samples of the accused and the deceased child have been sent for forensic analysis, police said.
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