The eight-year-old dead girl found in bushes along the University Road near the Sheikh Zayed Islamic Centre on Wednesday was identified as Alishba, who was abducted on December 12.
Alishba, daughter of Nazir, was kidnapped when she was playing outside her home in Block 15 of the Dastagir area.
Her parents had contacted hospitals and other places to locate her but in vain. They later approached the Jauharabad police station and were told to identify the dead girl found at University Road, only to discover it was their daughter.
According to medical reports, the girl was tortured and raped. She was later strangled to death.
The relatives went to the morgue in Sohrab Goth to collect the body on Thursday and blocked the road there in protest and demanded the arrest of the culprits.
According to a statement, Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wasan took strict notice of the kidnapping and the subsequent murder of girl and directed police to bring the people responsible for the crime to justice at the earliest.
He said that exemplary punishment would be meted out to the killers so that such incidents do not recur.
In another incident, a man killed his mother over a domestic quarrel in North Nazimabad. Thirty-year-old Adil was jobless for several years and tortured his mother for money.
He stabbed his mother with a knife and also tried to kill his sister.
In another case, a child was shot dead in the Kausar Niazi Colony. Imran, a student of class three, was sitting near a milk shop, which was being robbed by three men.
When the shop owner resisted their attempt, they opened fire and Imran was hit by a bullet, killing him on the spot. The residents of the area managed to nab one of the robbers, Saleem, and handed him over to the police.
Separately, a student recovered from a madrassa in Sohrab Goth two days ago, died in Rehri Goth on Thursday. Doctors said that Hameed died of natural causes.
