KARACHI, June 25: A young man killed his wife and an infant son by slitting their throats in Landhi on Sunday morning, police said. Arshad Ali, 26, knocked down his wife by hitting her in the head and slit her throat. Later he also slit the throat of his six-month-old son, Ghufran, in Bakhtawar Goth in Bin Qasim Town.

Locked up in the Sukkan police station, the well-built, six-feet tall Arshad Ali said he was deeply upset with Bushra, 22, as he had divorced her over a month back in Peshawar. “I was living with Bushra without ‘halala’, it was quite upsetting for me, Arshad Ali said.

“Basically, I never liked Bushra. It was an arranged marriage and I was never comfortable with her. Moreover the attitude of my father was also disturbing for me. He treated me as I was his illegitimate son,” Arshad Ali told from the lockup.

According to him, he was a pharmacy graduate from Quetta University and ran his medical store in Peshawar before coming to Karachi.

Following the divorce in Peshawar, other family members advised him to shift to Karachi and start life afresh, suggesting that the verbal divorce had not annulled their marriage.

“However, I was not able to overcome the conflict raging in my mind, and I killed Bushra and later my six-month-child by slitting their throats. Later I called my elder brother in Peshawar to inform him about the incident,” Arshad narrated in a tranquil manner. To a question as to why he killed his son, Arshad said that without his mother and with me in jail, Ghurfan would have faced misery at this tender age.

Police said they arrested Arshad in the house in the neighborhood where he had gone to inform them about the incident and also seized a sharp-edged weapon.

Arshad Ali was looking for a job with some pharmaceutical company in Karachi after coming from Peshawar.

Sunday’s incident has occurred at a time when people were trying to come to terms with a similar incident that had taken place in Lahore where a man slaughtered his three daughters and was later shot dead in the police lockup by a guard of a DIG of Lahore.

KILLED: An activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was shot dead by unknown persons in Shah Faisal Colony late Saturday night.

Police said Asif Zaman, 40, was sitting near his house in Shah Faisal Colony No 5 when two persons on a motorcycle pulled up and opened fire at him. The victim was rushed to the Jinnah Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Police said Zaman was an employee of the city government posted in Shah Faisal Town and lived in Shah Faisal Colony No 5.