August 22, 2002	Thursday	Jamadi-us-Saani 12,1423

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RAWALPINDI, Aug 21: A young man committed suicide in Tarnol while an old woman was run over by a bus on Islamabad Highway on Wednesday.

The man, Sheraz Khan, went to his room and shot himself using a pistol on being scolded by his mother for his failure to get a job, police said and added, on hearing the shot, his mother and other family members rushed to his room where they found him dead.

The woman, Sakina Bibi, was run over by a recklessly driven bus while crossing the Islamabad Highway in the company of her son who, however, escaped unhurt.

The body was handed over to her family members, who told the police in a show of fatalism that they did not want to lodge a case against the bus driver.

ROBBERIES: Two unidentified robbers looted the house of a lecturer of Asghar College Post-Graduate College on Wednesday.

Mohammad Irfan, a resident of Gulnar Colony, RA Bazaar, lodged an FIR with the police, saying that two unidentified robbers entered his house in his absence on Wednesday morning, held his elder brother’s wife and his elderly father hostage at gunpoint and forced them to give up cash and jewellery.

The complainant said: “They hit my brother’s wife with a pistol butt inflicting injuries on her forehead.” They deprived her of her gold bangles and earrings and also took away Rs30,000 in cash and gold ornaments lying in a cupboard. They locked the inmates in a room before fleeing the place, he added.

Meanwhile, three unidentified men posed as tax department employees to make their way into a house in Sector I-10/1 and loot cash and jewellry at gun-point, the robbery victim, Mohammad Omer Nadeem, told the I-9 police.

Similarly, police said, four unidentified female swindlers entered a jewellry shop at F-6 Markaz and made off with a gold set.

Mehmoodul Hassan was deprived of his car (IDH-5156) in the jurisdiction of Aabpara Police Station and Sohail Sajid of his taxi (STE-258) in Margalla police area, according to the FIRs.