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Honour killing: Death for man who decapitated 'kari'

was accused of killing his sister-in-law Noor Jehan, after declaring her a kari.

Express July 07, 2011 Less than a minute read

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HYDERABAD: The districts and sessions judge sentenced murder convict Qadir Baksh Hajiano to death on Tuesday. Hajiano, a resident of the Rasoolabad Abro village in Badin, was accused of killing his sister-in-law Noor Jehan, after declaring her a kari. Noor Jehan's mother Rasti Hajiano said that the suspect decapitated her daughter and hung her head in full view in the village in 2004.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 7^th, 2011.

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