Our Correspondent
Sheikhupura
Police on Wednes-day arrested 28-year-old Najma Bibi, the sister of Aasia Bibi who was acquitted by the apex court in a blasphemy case in 2018, and an alleged accomplice on the charges of murdering her husband in Khanpur.
Younus Masih, 52, was found dead with his throat slit in a field on Monday. He worked at the man-sion of a landlord.
Younas’ family in-formed the police that Najma was hav-ing an extramarital affair with a man named Irfan Dogar. They murdered Younas after he found out about their affair.
Younas belonged to Mananwala and had settled in Khanpur for work along with his wife and two children, a 14-year-old daughter and a 12-year old son.
Sheikhupura DPO Ghazi Muhammad Salahuddin assigned the case to Factory Area SHO Muham-mad Afzal Dogar and Sub-Inspector Wali Hasan Pasha.
The police arrested Najma and Irfan and they confessed to their crime during in-terrogation.
Aasia Bibi was con-victed in 2010 of passing derogatory remarks about Islam after neighbours working in the fields with her objected to her drinking water from their glass be-cause she was not a Muslim. She spent eight years on death row. She was re-leased in October 2018 after the top court overturned her conviction, saying there were “glaring and stark” contradic-tions in the case against her.She left Pakistan for Canada in May 2019. Earlier this year, Aasia was invited to live in France after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.
