Family feud: Children ‘involved’ in murder of retired general’s widow

Sons of the 80-year-old widow of an army official, accused his brother and sister of abetting the crime.

RAWALPINDI:

After the murder of the 80-year-old widow of an army official late on Monday night, one of her sons accused his brother and sister of abetting the crime.

Major General (retd) Abdul Aziz’s widow, Azmat Qazi, was taken to Combined Military Hospital by her daughter, Tania Bibi, and their elderly helper, Sardar Khan, after she was found unconscious at her residence in Harley Street, police officials said.

Amir Qazi, the son of the deceased, accused his brother, Col (retd) Adeel Qazi, and his wife, Humaira Bibi, along with his sister, Tania, and her husband of abetting the murder of their mother in an FIR he lodged with the police.

RA Bazaar Station House Officer Malik Allah Yar said that the complainant had cited the motive behind the murder as a dispute over the property owned by his mother, where she had been living alone for the last 15 years.

Yar added that the accusation was limited to abetting and not committing the murder.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 11^th, 2012.