LARKANA, Nov 12: The SHO of the Taluka police of the city lodged as complainant the first FIR of a Karo-kari related murder on Monday in the light of newly framed strategy of the district government and police to combat this social evil.

An unmarried girl, Shahzadi, aged 14, was killed on the pretext of Karo-Kari allegedly by her uncle in village Tharo Luhar in the outskirts of Larkana on Monday.

The accused Moula Bakhsh Luhar escaped after committing crime.

The SHO of the Taluka police station on behalf of state registered murder case under section 302 against three persons including Moula Bakhsh.

The police have not arrested any one nominated in the FIR yet. This is the first case lodged by an SHO on behalf of state for Karo-Kari killing.

The district government had in consultation with the police after getting go-ahead from the high-ups has framed this policy to check the murders in the name of Karo-Kari in Larkana district.

When contacted, SSP Ghulam Nabi Memon told Dawn on Monday night that the police would try their best that the eye-witnesses of Karo-kari murders did not deviate from their statements and the killers were punished.

STRIKE THREAT: The business community of Shahdadkot threatened to observe shutter-down strike if FIR was not registered in three days against Nazim of union council-3 Shahdadkot and others for allegedly injuring two traders.

Speaking at a news conference on Monday, the leaders of the Shahdadkot traders, Haq Nawaz Shaikh and Haji Abdul Rashid Zahri, accused Nazim Ibrahim Selro and 10 councillors for insulting shopkeepers in Shahi bazaar by throwing away their articles without any notice in the name of anti-encroachment drive.

They also injured two traders, Zahid Shaikh and Meherban Kamboh, said Haq Nawaz Shaikh while talking to Dawn over telephone from Shahdadkot on Monday night.

He said that with the shutter-down strike, protest demonstration would also be held against the Nazim and the councillors for misusing their powers and harassing the business community.

STATEMENT: A woman named Ms Fatima on Monday appeared before the judicial magistrate, Kambar, and said in her statement that no one had kidnapped her as had been shown in the FIR lodged with the Kambar police station by her husband Wazir Ali Soomro.

She had gone on her will to her brothers, she stated in the statement adding that now she would like to go with her husband.

The court permitted her to go with her husband.