HARIPUR: Two married women were stabbed to death over unknown reasons during the last 48 hours here, police and hospital sources said here on Sunday.

Kotnajibullah police quoted Qaisar Mehmood, an industrial worker from Muhallah Saeedabad Kotnajibullah as saying that on Saturday evening he came home from work, he found the main entrance door locked from inside.

He said that after receiving no response from his family despite repeated knocking he entered his home from the roof of his neighbour and found his wife Kiran Shehzadi, 32, lying dead in the stairs of the house, while his mother Shafai Khanum was lying unconscious in her bedroom.

According to police and doctors, unknown assailants stabbed the woman for reasons yet to be ascertained. The complainant’s mother was found unconscious, and police said the motive behind the murder of her daughter-in-law and the identity of the attackers could only be established after she regained consciousness.

The body and the unconscious woman were shifted to Rural Health Centre Kotnajibullah where the elderly woman was reportedly undergoing treatment. However, the complainant declined to nominate anyone for the murder of his wife, saying that he had no enmity with anyone.

The second murder was reported from Muhallah Khabal of Sector No 4 Khalabat Township, where a woman was also stabbed and injured. She later succumbed to her wounds in the Trauma centre.

Anwar Said, 45, a resident of Muhallah Khabal told the local police that he was at work when he received the information that his wife Salma Bibi, 35, was stabbed and injured by their real son Muhammad Asif, 17. The injured was removed to Trauma centre by her neighbours but she succumbed to her injuries within hours after reaching hospital.

The complainant said that the motive behind his wife’s alleged murder at the hands of her own son was an argument over an unknown issue. Police have arrested the suspect, Asif.

Published in Dawn, September 28th, 2026