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LARKANA, June 10: Two armed men killed a man and a woman over an old dispute on land on Friday near Qambar in a bid to make their crime look like an offshoot of ‘karo-kari’.
Reports reaching here said that Abdul Razzak Mastoi and Imdad Mastoi of the Ibrahim-ji-wandh village allegedly killed their cousin, Zubeda Mastoi, 25, and Jhullan Brohi, 30, in the jurisdiction of the Sujawal police station and fled.
Mohammed Ayub Brohi, father of the deceased, stated in an FIR that his son was not a ‘karo’. He was killed near the Wadero Wah over an old land dispute and the murderers killed his son and one of their own relatives to make it look like a karo-kari murder, he said.
Another FIR registered by Manik Mastoi said that Zubeda was innocent and her husband was working in Dubai. She was killed under concocted charges while she was busy working, the FIR added.
PROTEST: A large number of people in Shahdadkot staged a protest demonstration at the Koto-Moto Chowk on Friday over the murder in Karachi of Moharram Khuhawar and demanded joint investigation into the crime by Karachi and Shahdadkot police.
Relatives of the deceased said that Moharram’s cousins, Roshan, Riaz and Muhib kidnapped him from Shahdadkot on June 1 and later killed him in Zaman Town, Karachi.
They first sprinkled acid on Moharram’s face and then hanged him from a roof, they said.
When Moharram’s body was brought to Shahdadkot on Friday, relatives, friends and sympathizers gathered at the Koto-Moto Chowk and staged a spontaneous protest demo.
The protesters accused the cousins of being involved in the murder.
Sources said that the murder was an offshoot of karo-kari.
CRIMINAL ESCAPES: A man allegedly involved in a robbery involving former district nazim Larkana Khursheed Ahmed Junejo escaped from the custody of Mahota investigation police on Friday.
Following the escape, police raided the Ghulam Bhutto village on the outskirts of Larkana and picked Irfan Shaikh and Noman Shakih, sources said.
