MULTAN, June 29: A local prisoner has claimed that he woke up last weekend with a glass light bulb in his anus, reports Reuters. On Wednesday night, doctors brought Fateh Muhammad’s misery to an end after a one and-a-half hours operation to remove the object.

“Thanks God, now I am feeling comfortable. Today, I had my breakfast. I was just drinking water, nothing else,” Fateh, a grey-bearded man in his mid-40s, told journalists in the Nishter Hospital.

“We had to take it out intact,” said Dr Farrukh Aftab at the hospital. “Had it been broken inside, it would be a very complicated situation.”

Fateh, who is serving a four-year sentence for making liquor, said he was shocked when he was first told the cause of his discomfort. He swore he didn’t know the bulb was there.

“When I woke up I felt a pain in my lower abdomen but later in hospital they told me this,” he said, not knowing who did it to him.

Our Multan correspondent quotes the Nishter hospital doctors as denying that someone else had inserted the bulb in the captive’s anus. They were sure that it was a self-act.

The police corroborated the assertion, saying those involved in smuggling of drugs committed such acts.