Zara Qairina case: Family holds off on comments pending official post-mortem report
Published on: Mon, Aug 11, 2025 Text Size: Filepic of Shahlan speaking to reporters on Sunday (Aug 10). - Pic by Jonathan Nicholas | Daily Express KOTA KINABALU: The family of Zara Qairina Mahathir will withhold further comments until the hospital issues the official post-mortem report to avoid any conflict with the verbal findings earlier conveyed to their legal team and her mother. In a statement on Monday, family lawyers Shahlan Jufri and Mohd Luqman Syazwan Zabidi expressed gratitude to the Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) for directing police to apply for the exhumation and subsequent post-mortem on Aug 10.
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Zara Qairina case: Family holds off on comments pending official post-mortem report
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