Teenager fatally shot by her brother

Suspect loses his senses during quarrel with sibling and kills her

KURIANWALA:

A man shot to death his teenage sister over a domestic dispute in the district on Friday.

Police seized the body of the deceased and handed it over to her family after postmortem and registered a case.

Nineteen-year-old Maria Bibi had been married to Hasnain Ali, a resident of Chak No. 235 RB in the jurisdiction of Saddar Police Station, a year ago.

On Friday, Maria Bibi visited her mother Kaniz Bibi.

During this time she had a quarrel with his brother, Javed Iqbal. The quarrel took an ugly turn, enraging Javed Iqbal to the extent that he lost his senses and shot his sister.

Rescue 1122 staff rushed her to a hospital where she died of her injuries. Saddar police handed over the body of the deceased to his family after postmortem, filed a case against her brother under Section 302-311 and started raids to arrest the accused.

The number of fratricidal killings has increased in some of the districts of the province over the past few years.

This is a trend that worries and overwhelms everyone. It is different from the nature of crime incidents that took place in the past.

Take the Mianwali district as an example where the number of fratricidal killings has alarmed everyone.

Ten years ago most of the people killed in the Mianwali district were the result of tribalism and communalism. Inter-tribal and inter-communal enmities lasted for decades in which rival groups killed each other from time to time.

However, the situation has changed drastically in Mianwali. For the last few years, incidents of fratricidal killings have increased manifold. Fifty-one such incidents took place in the district in a year alone.

It seems that patience and endurance even within families have become a matter of the past.

At least 49 people have been killed over enmity, and 54 people committed suicide.

Last month, a man killed his brother over a minor altercation, and then he shot himself as well.

In Jhabri area of the district, another man killed his younger brother and then he also shot himself.

Mohammad Fayyaz and his brother Mohammad Riaz quarreled over a minor matter at home upon which Fayyaz shot his younger brother dead. Later, Fayyaz also shot himself.

Fayyaz had been working in Bahrain and was visiting Mianwali on leave.

In another incident, a man took his brother to a desert where he killed him.

Talking about this case, the SP (Investigation), Captain (Retd.) Qazi Ali Raza, had told The Express Tribune last month that on the night of 10 February, a call was received on Rescue 15 that body of an unidentified man was found in Chaburanwala area of Musa Khel who had been shot dead.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 5^th, 2022.