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LARKANA, Feb 11: Four people, three of them women, were killed on the pretext of karo-kari in Qubo Saeed Khan and Kandhkot talukas on Saturday.
In Yaqi Khan Magsi village near Shahdadkot, Akbar Ali shot dead his unmarried sister Jan Bibi and a man, Abdullah.
Akbar Ali, surrendered before police along with a pistol he used in the crime.
Ali Haider, the father of deceased Abdullah registered an FIR against the killer.
He said his son was innocent and called from home before being shot dead.
No one turned to lodge an FIR in connection with the murder of woman, Jan Bibi.
In another incident, eight armed men on late Friday night killed Othan Khatoon Jakhrani in Baqa Mohammed Jakhrani village in the Salar police area near Kandhkot.
She was dubbed as kari.
After two hours of her killing another woman, Hunnarzadi was also killed.
She was the sister of the man who had been labelled karo with Othan Khatoon Jakhrani.
Police registered an FIR against eight persons but made no arrests.
SU CAMPUS: The Sindh government has agreed in principal to set up a campus of Sindh University in Larkana.
Sindh Minister for Education and Literacy Dr Hamida Khuhro, endorsing an application of Qadir Bakhsh Bhatti advocate, has asked the education secretary for immediately processing the plan.
Mr Bhatti told Dawn here on Friday that hundreds of students would complete their education in different disciplines in the campus.
He said that boy students could have easy access to universities but girl students due to variety of reasons could hardly get admission to public universities.
He said that hundreds of girl students from the entire upper Sindh discontinue their studies due to poverty, regional and cultural constrains.
“The drop-out rate of women in Larkana and its adjoining areas continues to grow in absence of post graduation classes” he said.
The district government despite hectic efforts could not activate the Government Girls College (new building).
“At present, of 56 rooms, only four rooms are in use by students of B.Sc and B.A”, he said.
“Since the construction of this huge building with all required facilities is lying almost idle”, Mr Bhatti said.
The campus will benefit girl students from Larkana, Qambar-Shahdadkot, Shikarpur, Dadu, Kashmore and Jacobabad districts.
The Sindh governor was also approached to prepare a plan for early establishment of University of Sindh’s campus in Larkana.
It has been learnt that officials of the Sindh education department and University of Sindh are busy preparing a plan to set up the university’s campus in Larkana and Mirpurkhas.
