SUKKUR: Waqar Ali Umrani, the prime suspect in the infamous Tahira Khoso honour killing case was found shot dead on Thursday in a similar manner he had allegedly killed his wife on March 19 in Dangar Mohalla of Jacobabad, according to local media reports.
The murder had triggered a storm of condemnations and protests by almost all human and women rights organisations of the country prompting the Supreme Court to take suo motu notice of the matter, it was revealed.
Ms Khoso, the granddaughter of Khan Mohammed Amin Khan Khoso — a leading Pakistan Movement figure — came from a highly respectable family of Jacobabad, reportedly.
Mr Umrani, along with three other male members of his family, was brutally torturing her when her father, Abdul Samee Khoso, brother Arshad Mehmood and uncle Mohammed Iqbal, visited the couple’s house on March 19, according to the case details.
The torture episode ended with Mr Umrani, who had accused her of having an extramarital affair, firing a shot on her neck, Ms Khoso’s family stated in their petition filed in a court, reportedly.
All the suspects fled the scene and the victim was rushed to a hospital where she succumbed to her wounds.