Two killed in the name of honour

Karachi: Karo-Kari claimed the life of a girl in Sukkur and Khairpur on Saturday.

Police said in Majhand a man Ghulam Mustafa Khoso axed to kill his sister Bashiran on the charge of having illicit relations with a youth.

Police said the accused surrendered at the police station with the axe he used in the murder and confessed his crime.

In another Karo-Kari related incident in Khairpur in the limits of Faiz Ganj a man injured his sister Khanzadi and her husband Hazoor Bakhsh Rajpar after he foiled their bid to kill his wife on the charge of Karo-Kari.

Police shifted the injured to a local Hospital, but failed to arrest the accused.

Reports said the body of a man, which was floating in River Indus was fished out at Sukkur Barrage. It was identified as Muhammad Asim of Khanpur.

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