ISLAMABAD – Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar took on Sunday notice of a dual murder of a woman and his daughter outside a court in Khanewal district.
The Supreme Court has summoned report on the incident from Punjab’s Inspectors General of Police Amjad Javed Saleemi in three days.
The incident happened in Khanewal’s Jahania tehsil on Saturday when three unknown gunmen shot the women to death outside the local court.
The women had reached the court to attend the hearing of a murder case, in which they had been released from the jail a few weeks ago.
The assailants were on the motorcycle when the opened fire on them, leaving the mother-daughter duo dead on the spot.
The killer escaped from the scene after the murder.
Police see a long-running family enmity behind the murders, adding that seven other members of the same family have already been killed.
A case has been registered by the local police while suspects are yet to be arrested.
