Man kills wife over ‘extramarital affair’

A 20-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her husband in their Qasba Colony’s Muslimabad house in the early hours of Monday morning for allegedly having an extramarital affair.

Head Mohrir Majid of the Peerabad Police Station said Nasreen was brutally tortured by her husband, Sherbaz, when he found her in an objectionable condition on Sunday evening. The following morning, Sherbaz stabbed his wife to death.

Police took the victim’s corpse to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, but due to the unavailability of a female medico-legal officer there, they carried the body to the Civil Hospital Karachi.  The police office deplored that the postmortem examination was delayed for 12 hours due to the absence of a female medico-legal officer at the Civil Hospital.

Sherbaz was later arrested with the murder weapon. In his statement, he told the police that he “caught his wife red-handed with a stranger” on his return from his workplace. He added that he wanted to kill her then and there, but he was stopped by some neighbours, who had arrived to calm him down. The victim hailed from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s capital, Peshawar. Nasreen’s heirs were said to be coming to Karachi to register a case against the culprit.