Karo kari: Man kills wife

KARACHI: A man identified as Mumtaz killed his 25-year-old wife Lal Jaan and Syed Badshah, 45, on the pretext of karo kari on Monday. Sohrab Goth DSP Iftikhar Lodhi said that Lal Jaan and Badshah had eloped from their hometown of Karak and had reached Karachi on Monday morning. Lal and Badshah were at a relative’s house in Ayub Goth with Mumtaz barged in and shot both of them.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 24^th, 2012.