Teenage girl found dead at home

SAHIWAL: A 15-year-old girl was mysteriously found dead in the courtyard of her house at
Chak 95/12-L on Sunday.
According to Shah Kot police, Amina, the daughter of Nazir Ahmed, was alone at home when
some unidentified person strangled her.
Nazir Ahmed, a farmer, had gone to a neighbouring village while his wife, Ruqaiya, and son,
Usman, went to the field to cut fodder. When they came back home, they found Amina lying
dead.
Police sent the body for autopsy and collected evidence from the crime scene.
Shah Kot SHO Shahzad told Dawn police registered a murder case against unidentified persons
on Nazir’s complaint.
POWER THEFT: Around 1,824 power theft cases were registered and 1,358 defaulters were
arrested in the Sahiwal division during the last one month.
Sources said 1,881 theft cases had been reported till Oct 7. According to a report, 295, 1,221 and
308 cases were registered and 225, 892, and 241 defaulters were arrested in districts of Sahiwal,
Okara and Pakpattan, respectively.

Sources said Rs46.7m have been recovered in three districts of Sahiwal division, constituting 32
percent of the total default amount.
Malik Arif, the EXEN of Mepco in the Sahiwal region, said cases had been registered against the
defaulters with the respective police stations.

Man held for trying to kill three daughters

The police said the suspect was ‘forcibly’ giving the poison to his children when the neighbours
heard their screams and informed the police, who rushed to the spot, broke open the door and
arrested the suspect.
Surjani Town SHO Amjad Kiani said the police recovered rat poison pills from his custody
He said the wife of the held man, who is an addict, had left him.
He said the neighbours told the police that he was forcibly trying to give poisonous water to his
children.
The police registered an attempted murder case against him and launched an investigation.
Young man shot dead
A young man was shot dead in Sohrab Goth on Sunday morning.
Police said Hakim Jamali, 28, was killed near Jamali Pull off Superhighway.
The Sohrab Goth police in a statement said he was killed by robbers over resistance.
However, SSP-East Irfan Bahadur said that they were investigating the incident.

Source: Dawn

Pregnant woman’s death in Sadiqabad leads to negligence allegation

RAHIM YAR KHAN: A man of Adam Sahaba town of tehsil Sadiqabad alleges his pregnant wife died due
to alleged negligence of doctors and staff at a private hospital on Sunday.
Majid Solangi said that he took his wife, Samreen, 22, for her second delivery case at Tehseen Hospital
on Circular Road in Rahim Yar Khan.
The hospital administration took his blood for the patient but allegedly transfused the already stored
blood, due to which Samreen’s condition deteriorated.
The hospital staff later administered different injections, and advised him to take the patient to Sheikh
Zayed Medical College Hospital (SZMCH). She was received dead at the SZMCH’s emergency
department.
Solangi said that his wife died due to negligence and unqualified staff. He filed an application with the
deputy commissioner (DC) for legal action against the private hospital after an inquiry.
Hospital owner Dr Tehseen did not respond to calls to get his stance. According to sources, the DC sent
officials to the hospital to inquire about the cause of Samreen and her baby’s death.

Source: Dawn

Man held for attempted rape of minor girl

Police on Sunday arrested a suspect for allegedly trying to sexually assault an eight-year-old girl
in Shah Faisal Colony. Officials said the minor is a resident of Keamari, and she was visiting her
grandmother, along with her mother and two sisters.
The neighbour, Imad, took the girl to his house with the intent of raping her, said the police,
adding that when the girl started shouting, locals caught the suspect and beat him.
After the girl identified the suspect, he was handed over to the police, who registered a case
against him on the complaint of the minor’s maternal uncle.

Source: The News

Man arrested after wife found dead

RAWALPINDI: Wife of the son of a property tycoon, the late Taji Khokhar, was found dead
hanging by a ceiling fan on Sunday. The Gulzar-e-Qaed police said they arrested the deceased’s
husband, Farrukh Khokhar, after her brother lodged a complaint with them.
A spokesman of the Rawalpindi police said that Umar Khokhar informed the Chawki Gulzar-e-
Qaed police that his sister-in-law Ramsha, wife of his elder brother Farrakh Khokhar, committed
suicide by hanging herself by the ceiling fan. The police reached the scene and shifted the dead
body to hospital for post mortem.

 

Source: The News