SHIKARPUR, Jan 31: Four persons, including three women, were killed on pretext of karo-kari in different places of the district on Tuesday. According to reports, one Kabil Soomro and Ms Amna, wife of Ghulam Nabi Brohi, were gunned down by Abdul Sattar Brohi, brother-in-law of the deceased Amna, in her house in the Baid village.

Later accused presented him self at the New Faujdari police station with the gun used in the crime.

In another incident in the Nim-Sharif village, one Khadim Hussain Junejo shot dead his wife, Ms Zakia Khatoon, in his house.

He was suspecting that his wife had illicit relation with another person. The accused escaped after the incident.

The Nabi Shah Waggan police have registered a case.

One Sohrab Dahani killed his wife, Ms Sharan, and put her body in a bag and buried in the Pir Dada Chatto graveyard in the Khan Mohammad Dahani village in the jurisdiction of Dakhan police.

HR SEMINAR: A one day seminar on human rights was organised by the Pirbhat Women Development Society here on Tuesday.

Iqbal Detho, secretary of Amnesty International, Pakistan chapter, was the chief guest while Union Council-3 Nazim Amanullah Soomro presided over the seminar.

Speaking on the occasion, Iqbal Detho, Amanullah Soomro, Mohammad Paryal Mari, Rahmatullah Soomro, Madam Rubina Chandio, Ms Najma Mangi, Nabi Bux Channa and the tallest man of Pakistan, Naseer Soomro, demanded establishment of a women crisis management centre in Shikarpur.

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