July 30, 2007	Monday	Rajab 14, 1428

ISLAMABAD, July 29: The Saddar circle police have solved two blind murder cases which occurred in the jurisdiction of Tarnol police.

Speaking at a news conference here on Saturday, assistant superintendent of Saddar Circle police, Farhan Zahid described both the incidents as ‘honour killings’.

Giving the details of a murder which occurred on July 7, ASP Zahid said the bullet-riddled bodies of a man and a burqa-clad woman were found lying along a roadside near Sungjani. The bodies were identified as those of Nargis Bibi, 21, and Sardar Ghani, 25, both residents of Noshera and close relatives.

The woman had suffered a bullet wound to the back of her head, while the man had received four bullets in the face, hand and upper part of the body from a 30-bore pistol.

ASP Zahid said both of them were murdered by Nargis’ husband identified as Nauroz Khan.

Nargis married Nauroz, a labourer, three years ago in Noshera after which her husband went to Karachi for work.

The ASP said Nargis, in the meantime, developed affairs with Ghani and ran away with him from her house in Noshera on July 3.

He said Ghani, who married five years ago and had a son, shifted to Rawalpindi and started a business after developing differences with his father in Noshera.

When Nauroz got the news that his wife had married Ghani and was living in Rawalpindi, he came from Karachi and started tracing them with the help of his brother Nawaz Khan.

The accused intercepted the couple at Allahabad and killed them after taking them to Sungjani, the ASP said.

Their identification and involvement in each other helped the police to trace the killers, which were arrested from Rawalpindi. The official said both the accused had confessed to their crime.

In other blind murder case, the Tarnol police found the body of a woman lying in a pool of blood at a nullah in Chastianabad.

ASP Zahid said the woman had suffered a wound from a sharp object on the back of her head, which claimed her life. The deceased was identified as Bilqis Bibi, a resident of Norazpur.

He said Bilqis’ husband Yasir, a resident of Narowal in the district of Hafizabad, had brought her to Islamabad on July 19 and killed her. Later, he escaped to his native town and committed suicide by taking poison.