Honour Killing: Man on the run after killing sister

SUKKUR: Shabiran Khatoon and Ashiq Lashari allegedly became victims of honour killing in Darya Khan Lashari village, under Thull police limits, on Saturday. Khadim Hussain Lashari suspected that his sister, Shabiran, was involved with Ashiq, after observing the two talking on Saturday morning. He shot and killed both of them on the spot, and fled. Police shifted the bodies to a hospital for autopsy and later handed them over to relatives. Manzoor Ahmed Lashari, Shabiran’s father, nominated his son in the FIR, but no arrests were made till Saturday evening.

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