[DAWN] HYDERABAD: Armed assailants barged into a farmer's home in Mithan Jamali village in Tando Allahyar, 38 kilometres from here, on Sunday and bumped off the farmer, his wife and three children and maimed two others reportedly over a tribal dispute.Tando Allahyar SSP Javed Baloch said the assailants who escaped after killing Qasim Brohi, 45, his wife Zarina, 41, his three children, Eman, 10, Imran, 6, and Nawaz, 4, and inuring Haseena, 12, and Sajjad, 5, appeared to be Qasim's own clansmen who were infuriated over his refusal to obey them.
He said that a 10-year-old son of Qasim, Ayaz Brohi, escaped unhurt as he hid in another room during the attack.
The bodies and the injured were taken to the Tando Allahyar hospital from where Haseena and Sajjad were referred to the Liaquat University Hospital, Hyderabad.
The police official said the incident appeared to be linked to an old enmity over an 18-year-old Chandio girl who was allegedly kidnapped by some Brohi people.
The dispute over the girl was settled in a jirga held a couple of months ago in which elders of the Brohi, Chandio and Marri clans decided the girl be handed over to Qasim Brohi who would then return her to her parents, he said.
But Qasim's clansmen did not accept the decision and asked him to return the girl to them as they (Brohis) wanted to kill her in the name of honour, he said.
To save the girl from his clansmen, he said, Qasim produced her in a court of law which ordered him to hand over the girl to her parents. Qasim duly complied with the court's order, which further infuriated his clansmen and they decided to teach him a lesson by killing him and four of his family members, said the SSP.
He said while quoting Sher Khan, brother of Qasim, that Qasim had received a phone call a day before his murder by some of his clansmen who had threatened him to get ready to face consequences for his actions.
Besides his clansmen, Qasim was facing threats to his life from the family of his wife as well who had eloped with him from Osta Mohammad, Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, 16 years ago, he said.