DADU, March 30: A man stabbed his wife to death just hours after spending the first night with her in Mureed Dero village in Johi taluka and another man shot dead his wife, mother of seven, in Salih Shakh village in Mehar taluka late on Saturday night.

Reports said that Amir Mastoi killed his wife Nazeeran Mastoi hours after the first night with her. The motive behind the murder could not be ascertained.

In other incident, Faqir Mohammad Khoso shot dead his wife Rukhsana Bhatti, mother of seven. The villagers said the murder was the result of a matrimonial dispute between the families of the couple.

Relatives of Rukhsana Bhatti held a demonstration in Mehar town, demanding arrest of her husband.

Police registered an FIR against Faqir Mohammad on the complaint of Rukhsana’s father and handed over the body to relatives after autopsy.

KILLED: Unidentified armed men shot dead Zafar Brohi, brother of a local leader of Pakistan People’s Party leader Ghulam Mustafa Brohi, in a poultry farm in Qalandarabad Mohalla here on Sunday.

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