The girl in Kasur district of Punjab province was abducted last week outside her home. Her body was found in a rubbish dump on Tuesday.
She had gone to a religious tuition centre near her house in Kasur city, some 50 km from Lahore, on January 5 from where a man said to be a 'serial killer' abducted her, police said.
Her parents were in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah and she had been living with a maternal aunt.
According to a preliminary post-mortem report, the girl was raped multiple times before being strangled to death.
There were visible marks of torture on her face, congestion in her muscles.
The horrific incident triggered public outage throughout the country with people demanding justice for the child. The protests continued for the second day.
In Lahore, angry demonstrators blocked Ferozpur Road suspending the metro bus service. In Rawalpindi, traffic remained suspended for several hours as protesters demanded justice for her.
Police opened fire at the protesters that left two people dead.
"My daughter could have been saved had police acted when she was abducted on January 5," Muhammad Amin told reporters.
He said he had no faith in Punjab police to trace the killers of his daughter.
"I have appealed to the army chief and the chief justice of Pakistan to give me justice as I have no faith in Punjab government and police," he said.
The chief justice has taken suo motu notice of the incident while the army chief ordered the ISI and military intelligence to help police trace the girl's killers.
Kiran Naz, a TV anchor, brought her daughter to a news programme and blamed the government's inefficiency for the incident as she called the incident a murder of humanity.
Meanwhile, Punjab government announced 10 million Pakistani rupees reward for providing information of the killers.
"We have registered a murder case against four policemen involved in the killing of two protesters," the police said.
According to a NGO Sahil, every day more than 11 children under the age of 18 fall prey to sexual abuse in Punjab province of Pakistan.
Last year 4,139 incidents of child abuse took place in the province where 43 per cent of victims knew the perpetrators.
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