KARACHI: Questioning the findings of a police probe that concluded that Sindh minister Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani had killed his wife before committing suicide, his son MNA Mir Shabbir Ali Bijarani said on Saturday that his father could not commit suicide or murder someone.

Bodies of the elder Bijarani, the Sindh minister for planning and development, and his wife Fariha Razzak Haroon, a former member of the provincial assembly, were found in their Defence house on Feb 1.

Later, on Feb 2, the police reached the conclusion that the seasoned politician committed suicide by shooting himself to death after killing his wife over some ‘domestic dispute’.

Talking to reporters in his hometown Karampur, the younger Bijarani said that the Sindh police chief was in touch with him and everyone was cooperating.

Mr Bijarani, a Pakistan Peoples Party MNA from Jacobabad, said that his father was a calm and composed man, but stepmother Fariha was ‘short-tempered’.

However he expressed the fear that it seemed to him that something big happened to his father which he (the father) could not bear with.

He said he would share more details when he would reach Karachi.

He said he was with PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari for an interview for upcoming Senate election when he got the news of his father’s death.

Published in Dawn, February 4th, 2018