Man held for injuring wife, mother-in-law

TAXILA: Police on Friday claimed to have arrested a man who had allegedly stabbed and critically injured his wife and mother-in-law over a domestic dispute in Mirza village in the limits of Attock police station.

The victim reported to the police that she had married Noor Muhammad six years ago and had three kids. She alleged that her husband had been subjecting her to domestic violence, and she had gone to her parent’s house to get a break from the daily torture where she and her mother faced the attack.

In another incident, the same police arrested a drug peddler identified as Basharat Sharif and recovered 1.2-kilogramme hashish from his possession.

Source: Dawn

Eight-year-old ‘rape victim’ shifted to Khairpur hospital

SUKKUR: An eight-year-old girl, who was allegedly subjected to sexual assault, was shifted to a Kotdiji hospital in Khairpur district on Friday.

According to reports, locals, hearing the cries of a girl, rushed to an abandoned place in Sial Muhalla near Kumb and found the girl being sexually assaulted by a man, who escaped the scene. Later, the locals shifted the eight-year-old girl to a Kotdiji hospital in Khairpur.

Meanwhile, the parents of the victim girl said that Aqib Chandio assaulted their daughter as he was identified by the locals when he was escaping.

Khairpur SSP Mir Rohal Khan Khoso took notice of the incident and directed the concerned SHO to arrest the suspect.

Kumb SHO said the medical examination of the victim girl was being carried out while the raids to apprehend the suspect were underway.

Source: The News