LARKANA: Police on Thursday arrested a constable along with the pistol he had used to murder his teenage daughter in the name of honour in a graveyard in Qambar town, early on Wednesday morning.

Abdul Wahab, a close relative of the victim, registered an FIR (No.352/2024) against the suspect Mohammad Safeer under Sections 302 and 311 of PPC late on Wednesday night in which he stated that he along with his nephews Tariq Hussain and Aziz Mudassir went to the graveyard that day to offer fateha on the family elders’ graves.

While they were offering fateha and repairing the graves they saw a white pickup truck entering the graveyard from which the suspect, his wife Naheed Buriro and their daughter disembarked, he said.

The suspect took out a pistol, shouted at his daughter “You are a Kari!” and said he would not spare her, he said.

Having said that the suspect opened fire at the girl and sped away in the same vehicle along with his wife. “She died before us and we informed police immediately,” said the complainant.

Published in Dawn, October 18th, 2024