Honour killing: Man shoots sister-in-law

SUKKUR: A woman was shot dead by her brother-in-law in Pano Aqil near Baiji police station on Monday. Attur Korai alleged that his sister-in-law, Maqsooda, was in a relationship with someone in the area.

He shot her while she was sleeping and then escaped from the scene. Police transferred the corpse to the taluka hospital for autopsy and then handed it over to the relatives. According to SHO Maqsood Rasool Mahar, the police have arrested Attur Korai but they have yet to register an FIR against him.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 19^th, 2012.