A newly-wed woman shot dead her husband allegedly to save her honour in Liaqatabad police precincts on Saturday.
The deceased was identified as Shafiullah. Police have registered a case against the woman on the complaint of eth victim’s brother and had arrested her from crime scene. A police official said the deceased person, a father of two children from his first wife, had contracted second marriage with Shazia few days ago.
Shazia told police that her husband had forced her into prostitution after few days of marriage. She admitted that she started prostitution as she had fled from her house to marry Shafi.
On the day of incident, the couple had a clash over the same issue after which she went to her room and tried to commit suicide by shooting herself. Shafi tried to stop her but she got infuriated and opened fire at him, killing him on the spot.