KARACHI: A transgender person was shot dead in Korangi on Monday, according to police.
They added that 65-year-old M. Siddique alias Mumtaz was killed in his Gulshan-i-Latif house.
Awami Colony SHO Humayun Ahmed Khan said that the victim was the ‘guru’ of transgender persons in the area. He was sitting along with three others in the house when armed pillion riders emerged there. One of them stayed outside while the second one entered the house, fired two shots after confirming Mumtaz’s identity and rode away, he said.
He suffered critical bullet wounds and was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where doctors pronounced him dead.
Married woman from Bajaur Agency shot dead
Karachi
March 7, 2021
A married woman hailing from the Bajaur Agency was shot dead apparently in the name of honour at her house in Karachi on Saturday.
Gulshan-e-Maymar police and rescuers reached the property in Ghani Goth and rushed the deceased to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where she was identified as 50-year-old Dildasta, wife of Sher Wali.
SHO Mansoor Ali said the womanâs husband contracted two marriages and had five children from his first wife and seven children from the second one.
He told the police that his wives used to fight with each other, and his first wife along with the children had left him about seven years ago and started living in Kashmir.
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