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PPP lawmaker Shahnaz Ansari, who was shot dead in Sindh’s Naushahro Feroze district a day earlier, was laid to rest on Sunday.
Her funeral prayers were offered in the grounds of the high school in Naushahro Feroze and attended by lawmakers and leaders of the PPP.
It has yet to be confirmed whether a first information report has been registered.
Naushahro Feroze Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Mohammad Farooq declined to share any details with the media.
Police on Saturday had said the slain lawmaker had gone to her late brother-in-law’s village, Murad Khokhar, along with a sister to attend his chehlum, where a heated argument broke out and she was fired upon by a relative of her brother-in-law. They said her widowed sister had a property dispute with the family of her late husband.
Ansari sustained bullet injuries in her abdomen and was transported to the Peoples Medical University Hospital, Nawabshah, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
According to sources, she had written a letter to the commissioner, deputy commissioner and the SSP concerned (whose copy had been forwarded to the speaker of Sindh Assembly), alleging that Akhtar Ali Khokhar, his brothers and his son, Akhtiar Khokhar, were harassing her widowed sister and her.
The letter, seen by Dawn on Saturday, said Dr Zahid Hussain Khokhar, husband of the MPA’s sister passed away on January 5 2020 due to some natural causes at his home.
The late Dr Khokhar had reportedly transferred all his properties to his widow and their children in his life.
“Now, Akhtar Ali Khokhar, his brothers and his son, Akhtiar Khokhar are threatening and harassing me and my widow sister that they will murder us and children of late Dr Zahid Hussain Khokhar,” said the letter.
The MPA had urged the authorities concerned that this statement of hers may be kept in their office record and necessary legal action may be taken against the said persons “to save our lives.”
The late MPA was an active PPP member and was elected on a reserved seat.
She leaves behind a husband, two sons and three daughters.