Free-will couple killed 12 years after marriage

Brother of slain man says local police indifferent to murders

HYDERABAD:

The alleged recent killings of a couple who married out of free will around 12 years ago has failed to stir the Sindh police to take action against the suspects. Manzoor Jatoi, accompanied by his four years old orphaned nephew, bewailed at a press conference at Dadu Press Club on Sunday that the killers of his brother Zulfiqar Jatoi and his wife Nasreen Buledi are roaming around freely.

He recalled that his brother was shot dead 45 days ago in front of his four years old son Hasnain in Dadu district. He alleged that some policemen were present near the crime scene but they did nothing to prevent the killing or to chase the attackers.

According to him, parent of Nasreen visited them in Karachi where the couple was living around three months ago. He said the parent pretended that as if they had forgiven their daughter for marrying without their consent.

Manzoor told the media persons that the parents of Nasreen coaxed her to accompany them to their village in Kambar-Shahdadkot district where she was allegedly killed and buried in a local graveyard. Manzoor said his brother and later he himself complained to the police about the incident but the police did not investigate or recover the woman.

Later, Nasreen’s relatives killed Hasnain too. The couple is survived by two sons with Hasnain being the eldest. Manzoor warned that he would immolate himself and his nephew in front of SSP office if the police do not bring to the book the accused persons.

Meanwhile, SHO A-Section police station Agha Shamshad said though Zulfiqar was shot dead in Dadu but the assailants belonged to a riverbed area in Kambar-Shahdadkot. He claimed that he once raided the house of the accused persons but they all had left before the police reached their village as if they were informed by someone about the raid.

SHO Agha maintained that Kambar-Shahdadkot police did not help them so that they can carry out a search operation in the village.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 6^th, 2024.