Man stabs second wife to death for ‘honour’, turns self in

The killer, Raheem Dad, had recently been released from prison after 12 years for the murder of his first wife

Karachi

A man who recently spent 12 years in prison for murdering his first wife killed his second spouse at their Metroville residence on Wednesday.

The police claimed the woman was killed for ‘honour’, the third such incident to have been reported in the metropolis in a week.

Raheem Dad, stabbed to death his 35-year-old wife, Fauzia, after they both had fight. However, after committing the murder the man turned himself in to the SITE-A police station.

The police took the woman’s body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for completion of medico-legal formalities.

SHO SITE-A police station Taj Wassan told The News that the man had 16 years ago killed his first wife in Shikarpur. He was, however, arrested and sent to prison for 12 years.

He came to Karachi following his release from jail and married Fauzia with whom he had three children.

 On August 14, a husband killed his wife after the couple had a fight at their Gulshan-e-Sikanderabad residence.

Police had claimed the killing was an incident of ‘honour’ killing. Twenty-six-year-old Shabana, was shot dead by her husband, Ashiq Hussain, who went berserk after the two had a disagreement.

The killer had fled the crime scene and is yet to be arrested. According to officials of the Jackson police station, the woman was a mother of two children and hailed from Rahimyar Khan.

With men’s misplaced notions of gender superiority nurtured every time law enforcers fail to penalise culprits guilty of gender-based violence, another young woman’s life was brutally cut short by her husband over a domestic issue inside their Afghan Basti residence on August 12.

Police claimed the murder was an incident of ‘honour’ killing.

Twenty-five-year-old Zohra was first tortured, and later had her skull smashed with a rock because her husband could not control his anger. The man, however, fled from the spot.

She was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities by officials of the Gulshan-e-Maymar police station.

According to police the deceased was a mother of two children and hailed from Afghanistan. The suspect was reported to be a scavenger.