A father had been calling his daughter’s number for two days, but it was switched off. He decided to go to her in-laws’ house and asked, "Where is Zara? Her phone is off." While Zara’s two-year-old son was at home, her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law told him that two nights ago, she had run away with someone, taking her phone with her. They said, "We are too ashamed to show our faces; we are quietly searching for her..."
The father couldn't believe it. Four years ago, he had happily married her to her cousin, Qadeer, and they had been very happy together. He took the help of the police to file a missing person's report. The police questioned the in-laws, but each of their statements contradicted the other. Consequently, Zara’s mother-in-law and sisters-in-law were included in the investigation, and they revealed the truth: Zara hadn't run away; rather, on the night of November 11th, they had killed her and thrown her body away. They had told her husband that she had been in contact with someone. Zara was seven months pregnant, and her unborn child was also killed.
What was the dispute about? It was the eternal mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflict, along with the jealousy between the sisters-in-law and the wife. Zara had five sisters-in-law, and Qadeer was their only brother. They had asked for Zara’s hand in marriage and had brought her into their home with their own hands. The dispute was over money; they believed that their son should give all the money to his mother and sisters, while Zara should only receive the bare minimum. Tired of these constant fights, Qadeer had taken Zara to Italy and left her at her in-laws’ house a few months ago. This time, her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law decided they wouldn't let her go back. They decided to end the story by accusing her of running away with someone. They called a relative from Lahore and, in the early hours of the morning, while Zara was asleep, they suffocated her with a pillow and killed her.
Now, the problem was what to do with the body and how to hide her identity. They severed her head from her body and burned it on the stove to distort her features. Then they cut up the body and put it into two separate bags. One bag was thrown into a canal, and the other was dumped in some bushes. Police recovered the body parts from various places based on their leads.
People say, "Marry within your own family; even if your own will harm you, they will still shelter you." But here, even shelter was denied. This is a tale of cruelty so severe that even mountains would tremble upon hearing it