SUKKUR: Karo-kari claims two lives

Published September 29, 2004

SUKKUR, Sept 28: A married woman and a man were shot dead after the husband of the woman branded them karo-kari in Hasil Shar village, near Daharki, on Monday.

Bagh Ali Shar suspected that his wife, Shahzadi, had illicit relations with Sono Pitafi. He went over to Sono's house and shot him dead.

Later, he shot dead Shahzadi in his fields where she had been working, and fled. An FIR was registered with the Keenjhar police against Bagh Ali, Abdul Shakoor and Abdul Qadeer. However, no arrest was made till the filing of this report.

PROCESSION: Rice mill labourers of Rato Dero taluka, Larkana district, held a demonstration and a sit-in on Monday to protest against officials of the Employees Old-Age Benefit Institute.

Hundreds of labourers, belonging to some 36 rice mills, took out a procession, and passing through main thoroughfares, reached the general bus stand, where the protesters staged a sit-in for some two hours, stranding traffic at both ends.

Rato Dero rice mills workers union secretary-general Manzoor Ahmed Kumbhar said that the director and executive officer of the EOBI, Sukkur, were not paying any attention to pension cases.

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