KARACHI: Police in Pakistan have arrested a television cameraman on charges of murdering his wife, who was found stabbed to death in their home in Karachi, officials said Saturday.
Qamar Abdi, a cameraman for a private news channel, was arrested after his wife’s family named him as the suspect in a First Information Report (FIR), the initial police complaint, according to Dr. Farrukh Raza, a Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) for Karachi’s East District.
“The accused, who works as a news cameraman, has been arrested for the murder of his wife,” Raza told Arab News. “The woman was brutally murdered with knife cuts on her body.”
According to the FIR, filed by the victim’s brother, Asim Ahmed, the killing took place on Friday morning in the couple’s rented flat in the Soldier Bazaar neighborhood, where they were living with their only daughter for the last four years. Ahmed told police he received a call from Abdi around 12:55 PM on August 29, saying, “Kulsoom has been murdered, hurry up and come home.”
Upon arriving at the scene, Ahmed found a police vehicle and an ambulance, and his sister’s body lying on the floor, covered with a black cloth.
