The remarks by Supreme Court Justice Ali Baqar Najafi while upholding Zahir Jaffar’s death sentence have sparked debate on how insensitive a judge can be over such a gruesome murder. Though he supports the conviction, his remarks have stirred controversy, as he blames “living relationships” for such crimes. Calling it a “vice” for these crimes, he said this way of life has become dominant among the upper class.
Celebrities criticise such remarks by the Justice, calling out the victim-blaming. Taking it to X, Iffat Omar commented on how the moral policing is uncalled for and disliked. She wrote:
Was the judge asked for moral policing too or did he volunteer🤔 I really thought a judge was supposed to follow the law not teach morals to a murdered woman.Vice ,spreading in upper class I mean what nonsense. https://t.co/oUJW40p0XG
— Iffat Omar Official (@OmarIffat) November 26, 2025
Reham Khan added that the judge should focus on violence against women, as such crimes are also committed by husbands who murder their lawfully wedded wives. She stated:
Justice Ali Baqar Najafi while writing a seven-page additional note seems to forget that husbands brutally murder their lawfully wedded wives also.
The case is about murder & violence against women & that’s all it should be about.#NoorMukadam— Reham Khan (@RehamKhan1) November 27, 2025
Journalist Zoya Anwer added:
Really wanna ask Justice Najafi about those countless ‘legally’ married women who are treated brutally by their vvv legal husbands if ‘live-in’ and deen se doori is the root cause of Zahir Jaffer and Noor Mukamdam’s case
— Zoya Anwer (@ZoyaAnwerNaqvi) November 26, 2025
Politician Sharmeela Farruqi stated that these remarks weaken women’s trust in the judicial system, who would come to believe that they too will be met with victim blaming. She wrote on X:
A femicide cannot be reframed as a consequence of a womans living relationship. That is not law. That is victim blaming. When a judge injects moral opinion into a homicide case it weakens jurisprudence and erodes constitutional protections and it signals to every survivor that… pic.twitter.com/N4JFmmsCxi
— Dr. Sharmila Sahibah Faruqui (Phd) s.i (@sharmilafaruqi) November 26, 2025
Applauding Farruqi, Actress and Model, Frieha Altaf commented :
Journalist Bilal Farooqi stated that a woman’s relationship status does not give anyone the right to murder her. He wrote on X:
Justice Ali Baqar Najafi blaming #NoorMukadam’s murder on ‘living relationships’ is absurd. No “live-in” arrangement gives a man the right to kill a woman. What about domestic violence? What about the women murdered by husbands?https://t.co/D1aDI4QmZD
— Bilal Farooqi (@bilalfqi) November 26, 2025
Actor Yasir Hussain pledged the fear of Allah and stated:
Zahir Jaffer had been sentenced to death for the 2021 murder of Noor Mukadam. Upon plea, his conviction was upheld in May 2025.
