May 03, 2008	Saturday	Rabi-us-Sani 26, 1429

KARACHI, May 2: Meena, who suffered bullet and stab wounds in an attack that left her husband dead on Thursday, is “fighting for her life” in the intensive care unit of the Civil Hospital’s surgical ward.

Doctors told Dawn that she was brought to hospital on Thursday in a critical condition with bullet wounds in each of her shoulders and three stab wounds in the lower abdomen, thigh and knee.

They said the victim was four months pregnant.

Meena and her husband, Muneer Khan, were living in Keamari, where they had hired a house a few months ago after getting married of their free will in their ancestral village in the NWFP.

On Thursday, unknown gunmen, suspected by police to be Meena’s family members, stormed into their house and attacked the couple, killing Muneer and leaving the woman in a pool of blood. Her neighbours took her to hospital.

Doctors told Dawn that Meena could not talk or move because she had been put on a ventilator. They added that the victim – and her unborn child – had a slim chance of surviving.

They said that though one bullet had been removed from her right shoulder, the one lodged in her left shoulder was yet to be removed.

Hospital staff said that no one had visited Meena since her admission to the health facility.