{"id":3900,"date":"2026-11-05T22:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2026-11-05T22:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:04:13","slug":"suspect-in-bahawalpur-wifes-axe-murder-killed-in-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3900","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Bahawalpur wife\u2019s axe murder killed in \u2018encounter\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A man accused of killing his wife with an axe in Yazman was killed in an alleged police encounter, the Counter-Crime Department (CCD) said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The victim, Zeenat Bibi, 27, was a mother of two young girls. Police said her husband, Muhammad Irshad, son of Muhammad Nawaz, attacked her with an axe during a quarrel at home. Initial reports said he suspected her of a relationship with another man.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother was at home at the time and saw the killing. Police and rescue teams reached the scene and shifted the body to the hospital for a post-mortem. A case was registered on the complaint of the victim\u2019s mother on November 1.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CCD, Irshad escaped from police custody after the case was registered.<\/p>\n<p>On the night between November 4 and 5, a CCD Circle Yazman team was searching for him and set up a checkpoint at Chak 99 DB Mor. Two suspicious men on a motorcycle allegedly opened fire on the police party on seeing it, police said.<\/p>\n<p>During the exchange of fire, the suspects\u2019 motorcycle skidded and fell. The two men continued firing from behind sand dunes, according to the CCD.<\/p>\n<p>When the firing stopped, one suspect had fled. Irshad was found critically wounded and died later.<\/p>\n<p>The CCD said Irshad was killed by his accomplice\u2019s fire. Police recovered a .30-bore pistol, two live rounds and ten spent casings from the scene. The items have been sent for forensic analysis.<\/p>\n<p>A case has been registered against the unidentified accomplice, and a search for him is underway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man accused of killing his wife with an axe in Yazman was killed in an alleged police encounter, the Counter-Crime Department (CCD) said. The victim, Zeenat Bibi, 27, was a mother of two young girls. Police said her husband, Muhammad Irshad, son of Muhammad Nawaz, attacked her with an axe during a quarrel at home. Initial reports said he suspected her of a relationship with another man. Her mother was at home at the time and saw the killing. Police and rescue teams reached the scene and shifted the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}