Islamabad, Sept. 14 -- : A protest was held outside the Islamabad High Court on Sunday with demonstrators demanding the court to not grant bail to parents of the prime suspect in the Noor Mukadam murder case.

The demonstration was staged by friends of Noor, who converged outside the IHC as the court took up the post-arrest bail petitions of the parents of Zahir Jaffer, Dawn reported.

Noor, 27, daughter of former Pakistani diplomat Shaukat Mukadam, was found murdered at a residence in Islamabad on July 20.

A first information report (FIR) was registered later the same day against Zahir Jaffer, who was arrested from the site of the murder, under Section 302 (premeditated murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the victim's...