DADU, April 4: Family members of Safia Qureshi, who was killed after kidnap late on Saturday night, pardoned the main accused Zubair Jamali on the request of chief of Jamali tribe and elders, said late Safia’s mother Rashida Begum on Wednesday.

Late Safia’s mother Rashida Begum told journalists that People’s Party Parliamentarians MNA Rafique Ahmed Jamali, tribal chief Sardar Datal Khan Jamali and nazim of union council Bahawalpur Saeed Ahmed Jamali with other notables of Jamali tribe arrived at her house on Tuesday night and sought pardon for Zubair Jamali.

She said that she had forgiven the main accused as her family had old relations with Jamalis and one of her daughters Roma was married to Abdullah Jamali, a close relative of Zubair Jamali and MNA Rafique Ahmed Jamali.

However, in-charge of investigation Dadu town police Ghulam Akbar Lund said that the case would be challaned in court and the name of main accused would not be deleted from the FIR until the complainants withdrew the case from the court in writing.