SUKKUR: A man killed his mother, a local leader of Pakistan Peoples Party women’s wing, with the help of his friends and shot dead a schoolteacher in Jacobabad on Friday over suspicions they had established extramarital relations.

Police officials said that after having gunned down his mother Abida Perveen Jamali, who was a health worker by profession besides being PPP leader in Jafferabad locality, Riaz Ahmed Jamali and his friends met the schoolteacher, Waheed Murad Rukhshani Brohi, a resident of Dera Allahyar, at a hotel on the outskirts of the town and killed him after serving him tea. The suspected killer had somehow persuaded him to come to that hotel. He took the victim’s mobile phone and fled, said police officials.

They said that Jacobabad SSP Sumair Noor Channa had sent police teams after the suspects to different areas of the district and Balochistan to arrest them.

Meanwhile, adviser to chief minister on prisons Mir Aijaz Jakhrani condemned the party leader’s murder and announced the PPP Jacobabad chapter would observe three-day mourning for the devoted leader.

Published in Dawn, July 2nd, 2022