MIRPURKHAS: A 20-year-old woman who had submitted an application in the Sindh High Court for protection was axed to death in her home apparently by her family’s rivals in a matrimonial dispute in the small hours of Saturday.

Police said that a group of assailants barged into the house of Sher Khan Shar in Atana Mori village of Shindhri taluka and attacked him and his daughter, Yasmeen Shar, with repeated blows of axes.

The woman died on the spot and her father was rushed to the Mirpurkhas Civil Hospital after the assailants left the house. Mr Khan’s condition was stated to be critical.

The woman’s body was handed over to her relatives after a post-mortem examination.

Her relatives told local reporters that Sher Khan Shar and his daughter had been receiving death threats from their rivals for some time and Yasmeen had filed an application in the court seeking protection. She was to record her statement in the high court but their rivals killed her before she could leave for the court, they added.

Published in Dawn, October 31st, 2021