Tragedy: Two women killed in Hazara Division

HARIPUR: Two women were murdered over family disputes in Hazara Division on Friday. According to the police, Rukhsana Bibi, 27, was allegedly killed by her husband Tahirur Rehman in Chalundrian village near Mansehra. Rehman suspected that Bibi of having illicit relations with one of their relatives, which ultimately led him to kill his wife. In another incident, the body of Kulsum Bibi, 25, was recovered from a jungle near Haripur. According to the deceased’s husband Muhammad Miskeen, she had gone to the jungle to cut tree branches for goats when she fell from a hillock and died.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 19^th, 2011.