Zar Ajam

Zar Ajam (; 1993/1994 – 20 June 2011) was a Pakistani teenager and convicted mass murderer and terrorist who was executed by hanging in Afghanistan for the February 2011 attack on the New Kabul Bank in Jalalabad, which left 40 people dead.

Ajam showed remorse and apologized for his actions shortly before his execution. He was 17.

Case Ajam was born in 1993 or 1994 in North Waziristan District in Pakistan. In his childhood, he began to work as a day laborer and had no economic stability, He did not know his age when interviewed by the BBC in 2011 and had never heard of Islamabad, his country's capital, prior to the attacks. In February 2011, Ajam was given an Afghan National Police uniform, an AK-47 rifle, and a suicide vest to attack the New Kabul Bank building in Jalalabad, in the eastern Nangarhar Province.

On 19 February 2011, Ajam and other four men, including a local man from Kunar Province carried out a terrorist attack on the New Kabul Bank in Jalalabad. Ajam was one of five attackers; of these, the Afghan National Army and Police shot and killed one of them, while another detonated his suicide vest, killing himself. Ajam and one Afghan accomplice indiscriminately shot at the bank's customers, mostly government employees lining for their salaries. A total of 40 people were killed in the attack and more than 100 others were wounded.

On 2 May 2011, a primary provincial court found the defendants guilty as charged and referred the sentencing to an appellate court which, on 18 May 2011, sentenced them to death.

Ajam's body was handed over to Pakistani authorities in Afghanistan.