Pakistan(National Times)- SUKKUR: In a devastating incident, a grade 17 female lecturer became a victim of the shabby tradition of Karo Kari in New Saeedabad tehsil of Sindh’s District Matiari.\u00a0 Karo-Kari is a type of premeditated honour killing, primarily committed against women who are thought to have brought dishonour to their family by engaging in pre-marital or extra-marital relations. According to the reports, Imdad Jamali shot dead his wife, Afshan Jamali, at the\u00a0Bakar Jamalia Higher Secondary School. Police reached at the spot and arrested the suspect, who in his confessional statement told the police that he shot dead his wife over a charge of Karo Kari. He further said that he had married Afshan a few years ago, accusing her of having relations with a man and used to meet him at different places. In his statement, he told a police that he tried to convince her and also approached her parents, but she did not change her mind, after which he shot her dead. Station House officer New Saeedabad Karam Ali Jumani said that confession of the suspect was recorded and said that a first information report (FIR) has not been registered as of yet.\u00a0 The victim’s father,\u00a0Haji Muhammad Jamal \u2014 who lives in Dubai \u2014 held the husband, his father Wazir Jamali, and\u00a0brother Darya Khan responsible for the murder, saying he would name them in the FIR.\u00a0 He said that they had greed for property, claiming his daughters did not have any extra-marital affair with anyone. Haji Muhammad said that he had sent Rs200,000 to his daughter a\u00a0fortnight ago, adding that Rs100,000 was Afshan’s salary.\u00a0 The father claimed he had built a\u00a0bungalow worth Rs5 million but the suspect had asked for more money from the victim to which she told him the money was in the bank.\u00a0 However,\u00a0Imdad had pressurised his wife to give him Rs50,000 but when she refused, he fired at her and killed her, said the father.\u00a0 Haji Muhammad said his daughter\u00a0was a lecturer at Bakar Jamali Higher Secondary School and passed the Sindh Public Service Commission Examination of subject specialists six months ago and got a job in the same field.\u00a0 The father said that he and other family members were residing in Dubai, where he is an engineer in an airline company and his son is a pilot. He said that his deceased daughter also resided in Dubai before marriage. She had married Imdad with whom she had three children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan(National Times)- SUKKUR: In a devastating incident, a grade 17 female lecturer became a victim of the shabby tradition of Karo Kari in New Saeedabad tehsil of Sindh’s District Matiari.\u00a0 Karo-Kari is a type of premeditated honour killing, primarily committed against women who are thought to have brought dishonour to their family by engaging in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n