KARACHI: A woman seeking khula was allegedly killed by her husband outside the Malir court premises on Saturday, police said.

They added that Rehmat Begum, 45, was stabbed to death and her 18-year-old daughter was injured by her husband, Sarwar, outside the Malir Court. Following the incident, the police arrested the suspect.

Malir City SHO Farasat Shah said the deceased woman had developed differences with her husband and approached the court for dissolution of marriage. However, as she along with her daughter arrived there, the suspect attacked them and killed his wife.

He said the condition of the injured daughter was out of danger. The body and injured were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.

Woman stabbed to death in hotel room

A woman was stabbed and killed, allegedly by her former husband, inside a local hotel in the Nursery area, police said on Saturday.

The Tipu Sultan police identified the victim as 26-year-old Erum and said that she was found murdered inside a room of the Paradise Hotel late on Friday night.

Area SHO Raja Mehmood said that Muhammad Adil had tried to patch up with his estranged wife and brought a cake to celebrate their wedding anniversary at the hotel, where the victim arrived with her maternal aunt. He said the couple got engaged in a heated argument after which the suspect stabbed her and fled.

The body was found from the hotel room when the woman’s husband informed the police about it. The corpse was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

The police said that a murder case was registered against suspect Adil on the complaint of Erum’s father, Mohammed Rasheed.

The slain woman was mother of a three-year-old daughter.

Carrying the coffin, her relatives staged a sit-in outside the Governor House, demanding immediate arrest of the killer, the SHO said, adding that the police were working to arrest the suspect.

Published in Dawn, March 16th, 2025