Couple found shot dead near shrine in Thatta.

THATTA -- A newlywed couple was found shot dead in their car near Bukhari Pir shrine on High School Road here on Wednesday morning.

The deceased were identified as Allahdino Palijo and Gul Zameeran Missan, who had contracted a free-will marriage against the consent of the woman's parents a couple of months back.

Their relatives were quoted as saying that the families of Palijo and Missan had been at odds over the marriage but elders from both sides had reconciled them to the extent that even Missan's brother, Raja Missan, sometime stayed at the couple's house in Malir, Karachi.

A few days ago, Missan's parents invited the couple to their house and treated them normally. Before the...