Father Kills Five Children For Magic Powers.

A Pakistani father-of-six is in hiding after allegedly strangling five of his children in the belief that he would gain magic powers.

Ali Nawaz Leghari, 40, killed the two girls and three boys - aged between three and 13 - in a village in the southern Sindh province, some 140 miles north of Karachi.
The man apparently believed the sacrifice would endow him with magical powers including alchemy - the ability to turn ordinary metals into silver or gold, or the possibility of eternal youth.
"The man's financial condition was bad but he was also learning black magic and it seems that he made the sacrifice to excel in the craft," a police officer said.
The local police chief said the killings had happened while Leghari was on a 40-day spiritual journey, known as a "chilla" suggested to him by a pir (living saint).
The policeman said Leghari had tried to poison the family's dinner but had been spotted by his wife.Following an angry row, the wife left the house with their oldest son to go and stay with her parents.
Once they had left, Leghari was able to successfully carry out his plan to sedate the remaining five children and then used a rope that was found at the scene to strangle them, the policeman said.
"He strangled them one by one inside the room and later dumped them on a bed in the courtyard," he said, adding that police were now looking for the suspect.
Black magic practices are a strong part of mystic Sufi lore and have traditionally been the domain of pirs and aamils (sorcerers).Idiot