For ‘honour’: Two women killed in separate incidents
Man gunned down, father and minor daughter killed in road accident.
Ghani said they arrested Ali and registered a case against him. PHOTO: FILE
HARIPUR/SWAT:
Two women were killed, including one teenager, in separate incidents reported on Wednesday. Police said Jamshed, son of Ejaz Khan who is a resident of Khabal village, shot his 19-year-old sister. Jamshed said he suspected his sister was having an affair with a man from their village.
According to the police report, the accused escaped the village after the homicide.
In another homicide over honour, a man killed his wife in Mohallah Gul Mashal, Mingora, Swat on Wednesday. Mingora SHO Deedar Ghani said a man, identified as Hazrat Ali, approached them at around 3am on Wednesday and confessed to strangling his wife, Daiba, to death. Ali claimed he killed her because he was suspicious of her character. Ghani said they arrested Ali and registered a case against him.
In another homicide case from Haripur district, Liaqat, 30, was gunned down in Hal Jadal village by unidentified assailants while he was on his way back from the city.
Road accident
Zamarud Khan and his six-year-old daughter, Madeeha, were killed when their tractor plunged into a gorge near Rehana village, Haripur on the same day. Zamarud Khan, resident of Bhutri village, was on his way to plough agricultural land in a neighbouring village when he lost control of his tractor. The vehicle fell into a roadside gorge killing both the father and his daughter on the spot.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 29th, 2014.
Two women were killed, including one teenager, in separate incidents reported on Wednesday. Police said Jamshed, son of Ejaz Khan who is a resident of Khabal village, shot his 19-year-old sister. Jamshed said he suspected his sister was having an affair with a man from their village.
According to the police report, the accused escaped the village after the homicide.
In another homicide over honour, a man killed his wife in Mohallah Gul Mashal, Mingora, Swat on Wednesday. Mingora SHO Deedar Ghani said a man, identified as Hazrat Ali, approached them at around 3am on Wednesday and confessed to strangling his wife, Daiba, to death. Ali claimed he killed her because he was suspicious of her character. Ghani said they arrested Ali and registered a case against him.
In another homicide case from Haripur district, Liaqat, 30, was gunned down in Hal Jadal village by unidentified assailants while he was on his way back from the city.
Road accident
Zamarud Khan and his six-year-old daughter, Madeeha, were killed when their tractor plunged into a gorge near Rehana village, Haripur on the same day. Zamarud Khan, resident of Bhutri village, was on his way to plough agricultural land in a neighbouring village when he lost control of his tractor. The vehicle fell into a roadside gorge killing both the father and his daughter on the spot.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 29th, 2014.