HYDERABAD: Eight members of a peasant’s family including women and children were brutally murdered and burnt to death in Deh Gujju … last night [Nov 6]. The charred bodies were taken in the afternoon for post mortem. According to the police some unknown assailants armed with guns and hatchets rode in a jeep to the house of Abdul Karim Magsi on the lands of Mr Nazir Ahmed Siddiqui in Pir Kathi … Tando Allahyar... . They forcibly entered the house and started firing and [killed] the inmates who were sleeping … and before withdrawing they set the house on fire. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from London,] the US Embassy here has issued a warning about a phoney State Department document, signed with the name of Henry Kissinger, seeking ways by which the United States can eliminate foreign trade competition. The “Sunday Times”, invited by the Embassy to view the fake, said in a front-page story that the forged document … also asked US Embassy officials to provide names of corruptible Ministers and officials in several nations, and ways of bribing them. A US Embassy spokesman verified the story … adding that the document was … in circulation abroad for some time... .

Published in Dawn, November 8th, 2026