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SUKKUR, Jan 22: A married woman and a girl were shot dead on the pretext of Karo-Kari in two separate incidents near Daharki on Wednesday.
The police said that a woman, Arbeli, wife of Bashir Rajar, was shot dead by her maternal uncle, Sabzal Rajri, in Vesti Jeevan Shah, near Daharki, claiming her to be a Kari.
The woman’s husband wanted to have an FIR lodged against her uncle but the police refused to do so.
In the second incident, a girl, Rehana (15), was shot dead by her father, Yaseen, in Bhindi village, near Daharki, claiming her to be a Kari.
DATE EXPORT: Exporters of the Agha Qadir Dad Date Market have demanded the government to make arrangements for transporting the huge stockpiles of their dried dates to the Lahore railway station soon otherwise they were likely to perish. They have also demanded that the dates already lying at the Lahore Railway Station be exported to India soon.
They told newsmen the other day that the dates and dried dates were to be exported to India from Lahore and if they were not transported to Lahore soon they would suffer huge losses.
They said that 275 wagons containing dates had also been lying idle at the Lahore Railway Station since a month, and added that 20,000 bags containing dried dates were lying under the open sky at the Lahore platform, but the government was not exporting them to India because of the stand-off between the two countries.
They said there were 137 exporters in Sukkur and the situation had created a crisis for them.
