Police say the five found dead in Karachi were members of one family, discovered in a rented house in the Bin Qasim area during the night that ran from Monday into Tuesday. ARY News named them as property dealer Shahzaib, his wife Saba, his sister Shumaila, and daughters Aizal and Arya, and gave their ages as 30, 28, 20, five and three. Geo News, citing rescue officials, gave different ages: Shahzaib and Saba 40, Shumaila 18, and the girls four and five. Officers recovered a bloodstained handwritten note that police say pointed to money trouble and a break with relatives. A senior Malir police officer said the deaths are being treated as a suspected suicide while investigators look at every line of inquiry.
What police say happened
The house stands in a private housing society near Gulshan-e-Hadeed. In the preliminary police account, Shahzaib allegedly shot his wife before taking his own life, while his sister and the two children were reportedly poisoned. Those points are an early reading of the scene, not a finished finding. The bodies were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities, the medical checks used to record how a person died.
What the handwritten note described
Police say the note linked the family's hardship to the period after Shahzaib's father died. It said they had not found work and could not meet basic household expenses, and that they were living in a rented house. "We have been asking our relatives for help for the past six months," the note reportedly said. It added that they had sought money for groceries, milk for the children and a refill of the gas cylinder.
The note alleged that aunts, uncles and cousins had humiliated the family, refused money and would not help Shahzaib find a job. It claimed relatives told them not to ask for money and said they had no relationship with them. The writing also alleged that the family was denied visits and, on some occasions, pushed out of relatives' homes. According to the note, the household felt helpless and depressed.
What investigators will check next
The Malir senior superintendent of police, the senior officer for that district, said the written note had been sent for forensic examination and a verification of the handwriting. He said the case was being treated as a suspected suicide and that officers were still looking at all possible aspects. Geo News reported that Sindh Inspector General Javed Alam Odho took notice, asked the DIG for a report, and ordered a probe into whether anyone else was involved. For now the account rests on that early police reading and on a note whose writer has not yet been confirmed.
Aasan alfaaz mein
Karachi ke Bin Qasim ilaqe mein ek kiraye ke ghar se paanch log mare hue mile hain: miyan, biwi, un ki do chhoti betiyan aur aadmi ki behen. Police ke mutabiq wahan ek note mila hai jis mein ghurbat aur rishtedaron ke inkaar ka zikr hai. Note ke mutabiq ghar walay chhe mahine se rashan, bachon ke doodh aur gas cylinder ke liye madad maang rahe thay. Abhi yeh shuruati tehqiqat hai, aur police note ki likhai check kar rahi hai.
