NAROWAL: Unidentified gunmen allegedly abducted an 18-year-old girl from her home right after her nikah and injured two members of her family in the Miran Shah Hussain locality of the city.

Naseem Asghar’s 18-year-old sister (R) had a nikah ceremony on Wednesday night.

According to the family sources, as soon as the ceremony was over, seven unidentified armed men appeared on the scene. Two armed men entered the house while five others remained at the gate. They tried to kidnap the girl and her family resisted. The suspects opened fire on the family members and injured two of them, namely Naseem Asghar (35) and Amir Hamza (15). The suspects abducted the girl and took her away on a motorcycle.

The family shifted the injured to District Headquarters Hospital Narowal in critical condition where doctors referred them to the Mayo Hospital in Lahore.

City police rushed to the spot on report of the incident; however, the first information report (FIR) was not registered.

Station House Officer Mahmood Butt said the girl’s family had not yet applied for registration of the FIR and that it would be registered as soon as they would receive the application.

MURDER: Sialkot police resolved the a murder case that happened two weeks back, saying that the victim’s wife and brother turned out to be his killers.

Muhammad Bilal, 33, a resident of Zahora village on the outskirts of Sialkot district, was visiting his father-in-law at Sulehriyan on Jan 27 with his wife Iqra Bibi and three-year-old daughter. He was shot dead by unidentified individuals near a fish farm.

Sialkot police had registered a case of murder on the complaint of Bilal’s mother Parveen Begum.

According to Khurram Shehzad Malik, the spokesperson for the District Police Sialkot, a team, headed by Deputy Superintendent of Police City Circle Rana Nadeem Tariq, used technology to interrogate Bilal’s wife Iqra and brother Muhammad Imran.

During the interrogation, Iqra and Imran confessed to the committing murder. According to police, both the suspects had an affair. Police arrested both the suspects.

Published in Dawn, February 11th, 2022