Murderers on rampage in Sialkot

Three people including an Afghan national are brutally murdered in separate incidents in the Sialkot.

SIALKOT: Three people including an Afghan national were brutally murdered in separate incidents in the Sialkot district on Sunday.

According to police officials, local people discovered the body of a 65- year- old man, Shabbir Khan in the room of a rented house in Bharath.

Sialkot Cantt police said that Khan was an Afgan national and had been living in Pakistan for over six years. Police said that an unknown accused had brutally tortured the man to death and locked his body in the room.

“There were slash marks around the man’s neck and he had been bruised to a pulp,” said Cannt police superintendent Arif Kamran.

“His body has been here for at least two days,” Kamran said, adding that the tenants eventually sent up a servant to check if Khan was okay and discovered him to be dead.”

Sialkot Cantt police are investigating the case with no clues or arrests made in this regard. Police officials shifted the body to Government Allama Iqbal Memorial DHQ Hospital for an autopsy.

Meanwhile, in Nole More, Muradpur, unknown accused shot a 70-year-old woman and threw her body into the nearby fields. “The accused fired bullets at her head and she was killed immediately,” said police official Sarwar.

Police are looking to identify the body but have estimated the woman’s age to be at least 70 years.

“There have been increased incidents of violence in the district but this woman’s body was discovered by a couple of farmers who were tending their fields when they trampled on the body,” Sarwar said. Police officials have registered a case and are investigating.

In Daska city, accused Shabbir Cheema shot his relative Haneefan Bibi over a domestic dispute.

According to neighbours, Haneefan had refused a proposal by Cheema and had told people that she now feared for her life. “She had been getting death threats for a week,” the neighbour said.

The accused fled from the scene and Daska police are investigating with no arrest.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 11^th, 2010.