Pakistan early on Wednesday hanged a man convicted for the rape and murder of six-year-old Zainab Ansari in January. Imran Ali, who was arrested after her body was found in a garbage dump, was executed in Lahore-s Kot Lakhpat prison, police said.

Zainab-s father and other relatives were present. Zainab-s father, Amin Ansari told the BBC after the execution that he was "satisfied". "I have seen his awe-inspiring end with my own eyes. They dropped him on the gallows, and let his body hang for half an hour," he told reporters. The case, the most heinous in a string of similar child murders in the city of Kasur, had sparked outrage and protests in the country.