Day: May 29, 2008

TOBA TEK SINGH, May 28: The parents and in-laws of a woman joined hands to bump her and her lover off, with both families assigning the task to their one member each. The two finished the job ‘immaculately’ at a deserted place between Chaks 395-JB and 292-JB, some 10kms from here, on Wednesday.

A married woman, ‘S’ had eloped with her lover, Khan Bahadur, both residents of Chak 400-JB, a few days back. Collaborating with each other for the sake of ‘honour’, the eloped woman’s parents and her in-laws found the whereabouts of the fugitives and deputed Riaz, husband of woman, and her brother Abdul Zaman to kill both the lovebirds.

The two armed men kidnapped the couple from their hideout in a nearby village. They later took both lovers on a car to a link road of Sada Arayan village and killed them with gunshot fires at a deserted place near the rural water supply scheme.

Receiving information, the police reached the spot and recovered Rs3,400 in cash and ornaments from the purse of the deceased woman.

A source said both families approached local parliamentarians to pile pressure on the Saddar police not to register a case. However, on DPO’s order, the case had been registered on the complaint of Sabir Sultan, the son of deceased Khan Bahadur.

The deceased woman has four daughters, three of them married, and a son while her lover has three sons. It is learnt that one of the daughters of the deceased woman is the daughter-in-law of Khan Bahadur.
Source: Dawn
Date:5/29/2008

KHAIRPUR, May 28: A man was killed and his wife injured due to karo-kari allegations in Shambani village, Kotdiji taluka on Tuesday night.

Reports said armed men entered the house of Rahimdad Shambhani and opened fire at the couple.

Rahimdad died on the spot while Khanzadi was seriously injured and rushed to a hospital in Kotdiji and then to Khairpur Civil Hospital.
Source: Dawn
Date:5/29/2008

LAHORE, May 28: A young man succumbed to his burns in a Kharian hospital on Wednesday eight days after he was burnt by his in-laws allegedly over domestic issue in Sanda area in Lahore.

Imran Butt of Kharian Cantonment had married Rehana of Sanda nine years back but they remained issueless. The couple had also developed certain differences over domestic issues.

Rehana returned to her parents’ home in Lahore a few weeks back after a fresh argument with her husband. On May 20, Imran came to his in-laws’ house and asked his wife to go with him but she refused.

In the meantime, his father-in-law Rehmat Butt and brother-in-law Rehan Butt also had an argument with him.

Infuriated, Rehmat and Rehan reportedly later overpowered Imran, doused him with inflammables and set him ablaze.

Locals took the victim to Mayo Hospital where he told the police that his father-in-law and brother-in-law had burnt him when he went to reconcile with his wife.

Sanda supervisory police officer Khalid Mehmood told Dawn that following the statement of the victim, the police had arrested Rehmat the same day while Rehan was still at large.

He said the victim’s family had shifted Imran from Mayo Hospital to a private hospital in Kharian three days after the incident where he expired on Wednesday.
Source: Dawn
Date:5/29/2008

PESHAWAR, May 28: Unidentified militants on Tuesday night exploded a powerful bomb inside a government-run girls’ school and destroyed its main gate and a side wall but caused no loss of life, police said.

The police have registered a case against unidentified militants at the Matni police station.
Source: Dawn
Date:5/29/2008