Pakistan

Hostel shooting: Suspected murderer still at large

Police trying to hunt down the main culprit who gunned down two sisters, injured another.

Express June 22, 2011

RAWALPINDI:

Rawalpindi police have not yet arrested the suspected murderer who barged into a girls hostel in the city on Monday and opened fired at the three sisters, killing two of them instantly and injuring the third, who is under treatment at District Headquarters Hospital.

The suspected murderer, Asad Ali, escaped after killing Saira Naz, 22, for rejecting his offer of marriage, her younger sister Saima Naz, 20, while their youngest sister, Sobia Naz, 18, received bullet injuries on her face and leg.

The gruesome incident occurred in presence of the girls’ mother, Shah Jehan and their uncle Ashraf.

Their uncle Ashraf, who had come along with their mother from Attock to meet the deceased, tried to intercept Asad but he managed to escape.

Police raided the house of the suspected killer at Mohanpura but he was not there.

The police said Asad Ali, a resident of Mohanpura, belonging to Thalian, a village in the suburbs of Rawalpindi, was associated with the Punjab Cooperative Department.

The three sisters ran a hostel in the Tariqabad area where they were attacked by Asad Ali.

The investigation officer, SI Imran Abbas, said police raided the houses of the suspect and hoped would arrest him soon.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 22^nd, 2011.

COMMENTS (1)

farhan aziz | 13 years ago | Reply why do pakistani men think that women are their personal property,why do they think that they are so superior that a woman doesn't have the right to say no to them,do they think they are god that a woman must obey like a slave?? have they taken the maulvis propaganda about 'majazi khuda' literally and to their hearts? our men should come out of their cavemen like mentality and step into the civilised world.A woman has the right to make choices for her own self.fathers,brothers,sons and husbands should stop trying to make a woman's decision for her,it might surprise pakistani men to know but women have also been blessed with a brain in their heads ( yes,this might come as a big surprise to our misogynistic male population). this diseased mentality of owning women like personal property belongs in the dark ages and not the society of today.

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