KARACHI: A woman, who was full-term pregnant, was shot dead allegedly by her husband in Baldia Town on Saturday, police said.

They said that her husband, Muhammad Hussain, was arrested and booked for murder.

The police said that 25-year-old Mehrun Nisa was shot and killed by her husband, in their home after the couple quarrelled with each other over some issue.

Her family informed the police, who reached the scene and shifted the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

Baldia Town SHO Imran Saad said the couple had tied the knot of their own free will.

He said that victim’s brother Zubair Hanif lodged an FIR under Section 302 (premeditated murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code against his brother-in-law.

Published in Dawn, January 12th, 2025