11 July 2004	Sunday	22 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425

MARDAN, July 10: A woman and her three daughters were shot dead while a relative was injured on Saturday when armed men intruded into their house and attacked on the inmates at Akhoon Baba here.

According to an FIR lodged with the Hoti police station, five accused identified as Sher Bahadar, Mir Afzal, Bahadar, Ghulam and Nihar attacked house of Amtary Begum and opened indiscriminate firing on the inmates and fled.

She and her daughters died on the spot.

The girls were identified as Ashiana, 9; Zaibi, 12, and Shabina, 15.

It was learnt that the victim, Amtary Begum, of Dheri village, Mardan, had married her cousin Mohammed Zaman, but later she developed an affair with her relative Bakht Sultan and eloped with him.

The woman had also filed a case for divorce in the civil court against her husband Zaman.

In September 1994, five people, including her former husband Mohammad Zaman and paramour Bakht Sultan, had died in a shootout when Zaman and his men attacked Amtary Begum and Bakht Sultan on their way home from the civil court where the woman had filed for divorce.