Couple Who Fell In Love Killed For ‘Honour’

From the Daily Times (Pakistan):

KARACHI: A woman and her future spouse were gunned down Wednesday in the name of honour in Frontier Colony, Shahi Abad.

Peerabad SHO Rahim Khan said Shabana, 28, and Noor Khan Muhammad hailed from Bajaur Agency and wanted to get married of their own free will.

He said Shabana and Muhammad, who was already a father of two, had been living in Shahi Mohalla, Metroville for the past month.

Unidentified culprits barged into the couple’s house in the morning and shot Shabana dead; while leaving, they saw Muhammad at a milk shop and killed him as well, he added.

The victims were taken to the hospital where doctors pronounced the woman dead, while the man succumbed to injuries during treatment.

Separately, unidentified gunmen shot a man dead at Lyari Art Chowk allegedly over a petty issue.

The Kalakot police said Jumma Baloch, 40, asked some children playing football in front of his automobile workshop to play somewhere else and the children went away.

However, armed men arrived at the scene and sprayed him with bullets, killing him on the spot, they added.

The victim was a cousin of Lyari’s gangster Babu Dakait and had previously served jail as well.

Accident: A man was killed when his car overturned and fell into a drain near the Airport Signal.

The Airport police said Noman Khalilullah, 20, resident of Bahadurabad, could not control his car (registration No AJN-208) due to over-speeding.

Boy drowns: A boy drowned in a well at a park in Liaquatabad.

Police said Owais Ghulam Hussain, 12, was playing in the park with his friends, when he fell into the well and drowned.

Body recovered: The body of a child who had drowned in a storm-water drain Tuesday night was recovered from Chandni Chowk in Paposh Nagar.

Paposh police said Amjad Muhammad Ali, 6, a resident of Faqir Colony, had been unwell for two days and was on his way to a doctor with his parents when he could not see the drain and fell into it.

The parents searched for their child throughout the night, but found his body in the nullah in the morning, the police added.