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Man Kills Two Daughters Over Divorce Issue

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TOBA TEK SINGH: A man strangled his two minor daughters at Allama Iqbal Colony in Faisalabad on 22nd September 2024.

D Type Colony said 28-year-old Muhammad Akmal’s wife Zainab Bibi (24) was demanding a divorce from him, saying that she wanted to live in Toba along with her mother Surayya Bibi and sister Zarqa Bibi.

After his arrest, the suspect told police his mother-in-law and sister-in-law were working as maids in people’s houses.

He added that he was not willing to see his daughters, Noor Fatima (7) and Eiman Fatima (6), adopt the same profession after growing up. That’s why he killed them before leaving his wife.

Published in Dawn, September 22nd, 2024

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