April 27, 2007	Friday	Rabi-us-Sani 09, 1428

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ISLAMABAD, April 26: A 70-year-old Afghan who after killing his wife and wounding his daughter-in-law and teenaged granddaughter stabbed himself on April 12, died of cardiac attack at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Thursday.

Medico-legal officer Dr Waseem Khwaja told Dawn that Abdul Ghani suffered heart attack due to deep stress. He ruled out the possibility of the abdominal stab wounds as a cause of his death.

The body was handed over to his son, Abdul Hadi for burial.

Ghani was brought to Pims with deep wound on his abdomen on April 13 and kept in ICU after an operation. Later, he was shifted to the surgical ward V, where he died.

The police quoted the deceased’s family as saying that Ghani was mentally unstable and had been on medications for a long time but abruptly stopped the treatment a couple of months back. As a result, his blood pleasure remained high.

The doctors concerned had warned the family that if he stopped taking medicines it would be dangerous for him and he could also be harmful to the people living around him, the police said.

The deceased had been unemployed for the last 16 to 17 years and was on anti-depressants since then.

It may be mentioned that Ghani, an Afghan of Tajik origin, living in a rented house in G-9/4, attacked his wife Kamla Bibi and swung a kitchen knife at her neck, cutting her jugular vein, resulting in her death within seconds on April 12.

He then attacked his daughter-in-law Razia Bibi, 35, and granddaughter Faiza Bibi, 17, but they offered resistance and saved their lives. Later, he stabbed himself in the abdomen before the arrival of the police.

Mr Ghani had been living in the house since July 2006 along with his wife, daughter-in-law and three granddaughters including Nazia Bibi, 12, and Murzia Bibi, 3, while his another son Abdul Nabi lived in the UK.

The police said Nabi bore the expense of the family including his parents. However, he had planned to shift his family to London. His father became upset on his son’s decision and was feeling uncertain about his future.