Two killed in Nowshera allegedly for honour

Accused fled the crime scene

NOWSHERA: A man and woman were killed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) Nowshera district late on Saturday which the police said was a suspected case of ‘honour’ killing.

Akora Khattak police said that a man identified as Ihsanullah, alias Manan, had allegedly killed his sister Adil Zari and her alleged paramour Mir Akbar Shah and dumped their bodies in a roadside ravine in the Mali Khel Bala area of the district.

The accused fled while a first information report (FIR) for a double murder has been registered against Ihsanullah. Police added that Zari, the wife of Faqir Hussain was wanted for the murder of Jameel Shah and has been in hiding for a long time. They added that Ihsanullah had been chasing his sister and her alleged paramour for a while.

The police took the bodies into custody and shifted them to the Nowshera district headquarters hospital (DHQ) for an autopsy while further investigations are underway.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 23^rd, 2019.