Day: December 24, 2015

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Man stabs wife to death in Lyari

Karachi: Muzamil Khatoon, 37, was stabbed to death in a house situated in Musafir Khana area of Lyari.

Baghdadi SHO Rao Dilshad said when police personnel arrived at the house they saw a man escaping and they managed to chase the suspect and arrest him.

When the law enforcers went inside the house they found the body of a woman who had been stabbed. She was taken to the Civil Hospital Karachi.

The detained suspect was identified as Gul Zaman, the husband of the deceased and he revealed during interrogation that he had married Muzamil Khatoon, a widow with three daughters and a son, four to five years ago.

SHO Dilshad said it was during an argument on Wednesday that he picked up a knife from the kitchen and stabbed his wife to death. The murder weapon was found in the possession of Gul Zaman and he was booked for murder.

The News

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Assistance sought over denial of women to vote

LAHORE: Lahore High Court on Wednesday sought assistance from Asma Jahangir and Shahzad Shaukat in a petition seeking a fresh election in two union councils of Sargodha on grounds that women voters were prevented from exercising their constitutionally guaranteed right to vote.

The hearing was adjourned till January 21.

At a previous hearing, Justice Farrukh Irfan Khan had stopped the Election Commission of Pakistan from notifying election results in the two constituencies (UC-34 and -35) till a decision was reached in the petition. He had sought replies from the district- and the provincial- election commissioners and the district returning officer concerned.

Justice Khan observed that every Pakistani would be upset if women in a constituency were deprived of their right to vote. He said the matter was of grave concern. “The court cannot dismiss such a petition merely on technical grounds,” he said.

Petitioner Sheikh Mukhtar, a resident of one of UC-34, had submitted that there were 3,656 women registered as voters in the UC. He said none of them was allowed to cast a vote. He said this was unlawful and against the spirit of democracy. He requested the court to set aside the election in the two UCs and sought directions for the authorities concerned to hold a fresh election in the two UCs.

Express Tribune

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Woman throws acid on ex’s wife

Acid attack

QUETTA: A woman threw acid on the face of another woman in Killi Shabo area of Quetta to avenge being dumped by the victim’s husband, police said on Wednesday.

According to police, Jan Bibi, wearing gloves on her hands, entered Amina Saqib’s home pretending to be an employee of National Census Department, “She threw acid on Amina’s face and fled,” a police official said.

Police and rescue workers rushed her to the burns ward of Bolan Medical Complex (BMC) where doctors stated her life to be out of danger, but, “Amina has received 20 per cent burn injuries,” Dr Muhammad Ayoub said.

The accused Jan Bibi was arrested while escaping in a rickshaw with the empty bottle of acid. “Jan Bibi has confessed before the investigators,” the police official said.

She was in a relationship with Saqib, but he married Amina. As revenge, Jan Bibi attacked Saqib’s wife, he said.

Express Tribune

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