BAHAWALPUR:
Dozens of residents of Khanpur staged a protest demonstration on Tuesday against the police’s failure to arrest the men who had murdered a woman in the area on Monday.
Shahid told reporters at the Khanpur Tehsil Hospital that he and other members of his family woke up to screams coming from the front yard of their house. He said they had rushed outside and seen their mother Basheera Bibi, 40, lying on the ground in a pool of blood. He said they rushed her to a hospital where she succumbed to multiple stab wounds. Shahid said that some robbers had broken into their house and seeing their mother in the front yard, had tried to snatch her earrings. He said his mother had raised a hue and cry and the men had stabbed her, cut her ears off and fled.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 1st, 2015.
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