KARACHI: A 37-year-old woman was shot dead in Quaidabad on Thursday, said police.

They added that four gunmen entered a home in Gulshan-i-Buner and opened indiscriminate fire in which Qamar Bibi was killed.

The body was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre to fulfil medico-legal formalities.

The police said the victim hailed from Waziristan. Her husband was not home at the time of the incident.

Area SHO Safdar Brohi said the initial probe revealed that the murder was an outcome of “family dispute”.

Man stabbed to death

A 50-year-old man was stabbed to death on the outskirts of the city on Thursday.

Steel Town police said that Abdul Waheed was stabbed to death in the Ghaggar Phatak area.

The police arrested the suspect identified as Ghulam Abbas.

The murder appeared to be the outcome of a family dispute. The body was taken to the JPMC to fulfil medico-legal formalities.

Two suspects held for looting Rs30m prize bonds

Police on Thursday claimed to have arrested two suspects allegedly involved in recent robbery of prize bonds worth Rs30 million in Jamshed Quarters and recovered Rs25m from them.

Acting on a tip-off, Special Investigation Unit of police detained two suspects Mohammed Naveed and Farhan Ahmed near Taj Medical Complex intercity bus stand when they were trying to flee to Hyderabad, said SSP SIU retired Captain Haider Raza.

The police recovered 10 packets of prize bonds (each packet containing prize bonds worth Rs2,500,000). The total value of the recovered prize bonds is Rs25m (2.5 crore), added the officer.

He termed it the biggest robbery of the year so far.

The suspects revealed names of their eight accomplices and efforts were under way to arrest them, the police added.

Published in Dawn, April 9th, 2021