Pakistan has 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 early on Wednesday, police said.
Zainab's father and other relatives were present.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.
After he was sentenced to death for raping and murdering Zainab, Imran Ali was convicted for similar crimes against six more girls.
Zainab's father, Amin Ansari, said after the execution that he was "satisfied"."I have seen his awe-inspiring end with my own eyes," he told reporters.
However Mr Ansari, who said that Zainab would have been seven years and two months old if she was alive, expressed regret that authorities did not televise the hanging.
Mr Ansari's earlier appeal for Ali to face a public hanging was dismissed by the Lahore High court.
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