LAHORE: A man and his wife were found stabbed to death in a field, allegedly over “honour”, in Alipur tehsil of Muzaffargarh district on Thursday.

Police say that a year ago, Lal Hussain of Seetpur had contracted love marriage with a woman, Shazia, of Uch Sharif, a mother of three, after she got divorce from her first husband.

On Wednesday, the couple attended the wedding of a relative in Seetpur, where Shazia’s former husband and his family were also present.

After attending the wedding, Hussain and Shazia went missing and later their bodies, carrying stabbing wounds, were found in a field on Wednesday night.

The police shifted the bodies to the morgue for autopsy and registered the case.

Seetpur SHO Abdullah Sadiq says that initial investigation has revealed that a brother of Shazia’s former husband and his two friends had called the couple during the wedding ceremony and took them to nearby fields. The suspects stabbed the woman and her husband to death and fled the scene, leaving their bodies in a field, he adds.

“We are conducting raids on the houses of the suspects in Uch Sharif and will arrest them soon,” the SHO claims.

Published in Dawn, June 12th, 2026