Overview
- The Supreme Court listed Zahir Jaffer’s review petition for April 8 before a three‑member bench led by Justice Hashim Kakar with Justices Salahuddin Panhwar and Ishtiaq Ibrahim.
- A review petition in Pakistan asks the top court to correct an apparent error in its own judgment, which is a limited check rather than a fresh appeal or retrial.
- The court’s May 2025 decision upheld Jaffer’s death sentence for murder and commuted a separate death sentence for rape to life imprisonment, while maintaining compensation to Noor Mukadam’s family.
- Lower courts earlier convicted Jaffer after Noor, 27, was found tortured and beheaded in an Islamabad home in July 2021, with the Islamabad High Court later converting his rape sentence to a second death penalty before the Supreme Court modified it.
- The hearing could clarify whether the top court sees any legal error in its prior ruling, a step watched closely by Noor’s family and by advocates focused on accountability for violence against women.