KARACHI: A young man was shot dead in the name of so-called honour in Ittehad Town on Monday afternoon.

Area SHO Javed Akhtar said that Naimat Ullah Jan, 25, had married a woman in his native village in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa around 10 days ago on their free will.

He said he brought his wife here and was staying at the residence of his maternal uncle near X-10 bus stand. However, the woman’s brothers traced him and shot him dead.

The suspects also took away their widowed sister.

The body was shifted to the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi for medico-legal formalities.

‘Woman killed by husband’

A young woman was killed, allegedly by her husband, in Orangi Town, on Monday.

Iqbal Market police said that 26-year-old Dua was stabbed and killed by her husband, Arsalan, inside their home in Sector-11 ½. The police attributed family dispute as probable motive of the murder but did not elaborate.

The suspect managed to escape. The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a post-mortem examination.

Published in Dawn, March 11th, 2025