Taranda village Muhammad Panah resident Mushtaq killed his wife after torturing her with a knife because she tried to stop him from drinking and hid his alcohol. Shameem, the mother of two children, was Mushtaq’s second wife and had begged him to give up alcohol for years. “They always had fights about his drinking habit. He was abusive and hit the children so she was always hiding his liqour,” Shameem’s neighbour Nighat bibi said. “He was an alcoholic. He would beat up anyone in sight.
He beat me several times and his wife knew that it was only a matter of time before the neighbourhood ganged up on him,” Mushtaq’s neighbour Qasim said. On Sunday Mushtaq was drinking with his friend Samar and when his wife tried to stop him and he began to carve into her face with a kitchen knife. Mushtaq then stabbed her. Taranda Police Station House Officer Shah Jahan lodged an FIR no.10/2011 on the application of Shameem’s brother. Police officials have has raided different places but Mushtaq escaped the scene and is still at large.
Mushtaq and Shameem were married eight years ago and the couple had two children.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 10th, 2011.
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