Man murders daughter for ‘honour’ in Nasirabad

One Sabir Ali, a villager residing in the Goth Muhammad Amin area of Khan Kot in the Nasirabad district of Balochistan, hacked his daughter to death with an ax and injured her alleged boyfriend for ‘honour’ on Monday, March 29. Police shifted the survivor and the body of the girl to a nearby hospital while a case was registered against the accused, who was later apprehended in a raid.

Hindu man gunned down after attending Holi event in Clifton

Unknown assailants shot dead 28-year-old Deepak and injured his friend 22-year-old Vikash Manu, both of whom were returning home after attending Holi celebrations in Clifton Monday evening. Both men were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center where Deepak was pronounced dead on arrival. The motive behind the shooting in yet unclear.

Principal booked for torturing student

Bahawalpur Cantonment police on Monday booked the principal, administrator and security guard of a private college, as well as their two unidentified accomplices, for allegedly torturing a student.

The case was registered under section 336 of the PPC (destroying or permanently impairing the functioning, power or capacity of an organ of the body of another person, or causing permanent disfigurement) against the five accused by the father of the victims. According to the complainant, the boy along with his grandmother visited the college on Saturday to retrieve his cellphone which had been confiscated by the principal some days back.

However, all five men began thrashing the student and then later locked him and his grandmother in a room. The boy’s father claims that his son lost his hearing due to the torture – a medico-legal examination confirmed torture as well as damage to the victim’s ear. No arrests have been made in the matter so far.