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| November 06, 2006 | Monday | Shawwal 13, 1427 |
Murders most foul bring more shocks
RAWALPINDI, Nov 5: A couple and their 18-month-old daughter were murdered on Sunday but their bodies were found miles apart, police said.
Smoke rising from a house in Khurram Colony, Sadiqabad, late Saturday signalled to a night watchman of the area that there was something foul.
His suspicions proved true when police called to the scene broke into the house to find the charred bodies of Sabiha, 29, and her infant daughter Mashim.
Her two young sons escaped the grim fate because they had stayed back with an aunt the family had visited earlier in the day, according to a relative.
A search for Sajid Habib, the head of the family, ended when his body was found lying in a thicket in Sector F-6 of Islamabad, not far from the spot where the battered body of journalist Ismail Malik was discovered just four days earlier.
“First it was presumed that the mother and daughter met a fiery death. But after discovering the body of slain Sajid in Islamabad, we have started investigating on other lines,” police inspector Azmat told Dawn.
“It is a blind murder so far, nothing else,” he added. Blind or not, the gruesome murders sent a wave of shock and insecurity through the lower middle class locality.
Sajid Habib worked as an accountant in a construction company in Sector I-8/3 of Islamabad and had been living in a rented house in Khurram Colony for the last three years. He was on friendly terms with his neighbours.
Sometime after the family returned home from visiting the children’s aunt, Sajid went out and was not seen until his body was found in Islamabad next morning.
SHO Kohsar police station Fida Hussain Satti told Dawn that a passerby spotted the body lying in the green belt along the Nazimuddin Road in Sector F-6/4 and informed the police.
A doctor’s prescription found on the body led the police to an eye specialist who confirmed that Sajid was his patient, thus establishing his identity.
Moving scenes were witnessed when the charred bodies of Sabiha and her daughter were being shifted to the hospital.
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