A court of special magistrate extended physical remand of key accused in murder of teenage girl Rimsha Wassan, for two days, on Sunday. Khairpur Police produced murder accused Zulfiqar Wassan before the court after his three days' earlier remand lapsed. Police officials informed the court that police teams conducting raids for arrest of the accomplices of Zulfiqar Wassan.

Special magistrate's court granted two days' physical remand of the accused to the police. Wassan had earlier confessed before police to killing the teenage girl whose murder triggered an outcry across the country. According to police Zulfiqar Wassan murdered Rimsha in the pretext of 'honour'.

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