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Gullaan Bharo was a mother of two from Goth Shah Bakhsh Bharo, Sukkur. She left her violent husband and had been living with her father for 2–3 years. She hadn't filed for khula.

Her husband declared her kari. Said she deserved to be killed. She ran.

She fled through the kacha area, riverine jungle, bushes, thorns. Her face and body were covered in cuts and scratches when she finally reached Ghulam Bund police station. The cops there actually did something rare, they took her in and filed a challan the next day.

The court ordered her to be transferred to Darul Aman. A shelter. Safety.

Then her father showed up at court. He laid his pag at her feet, begging her to come home. Her mother begged too. Gullaan had been saying she wanted to go to Darul Aman. But after her father's plea, she agreed to go back.

Before leaving, she made a video statement in Sindhi:

"I know I will be killed. I am a mother of two children, but for the sake of my father's dignity I will sacrifice myself and go back to live with him."

That was April 24.

On May 2, her husband Sikki Lagau and his uncle Maula Bakhsh broke into her home and shot her with a Kalashnikov.

Both have been arrested. FIR under Section 302.

She named them as threats in her police statement. The judge gave no additional protection orders. Her father promised safety.

She went home anyway. She knew what was coming.

"I know I'll be killed" – another case of honour killing in Sukkur