RAWALPINDI: Relatives have found the Gujar Khan woman who went missing here a week ago, after her five-year-old daughter was found strangled in the nursery of Benazir Bhutto Hospital where her newborn twin boys were being treated.

“We found her roaming outside the Commissioner’s Office on Tuesday night,” her husband Saeed Asghar told Dawn.

“She was not in her senses. In fact her mental condition was worse as she did not recognise anyone of us, not even me.”

Police was not informed when his wife disappeared from the hospital on January 20, mysteriously leaving behind her newborn twin boys and her little daughter dead.

That may be because of her stressful mental condition or fear of she being arrested, but police suspect her to be the murderer of her daughter.

“She is the prime suspect in the murder case of the little girl and has to be investigated,” Deputy Superintendent of Police Zaman Zia told Dawn.

However, he said, it would be up to the complainant whether he wanted to nominate his wife in the murder or not.

Meanwhile, the twin boys who were under intensive care in the Benazir Bhutto Hospital have been discharged. Their mother had not accompanied them when they were shifted from a hospital at their birthplace in Sohawa for better treatment. Distraught at being separated from her newborn, the family brought the woman and her daughter Nimra to BBH six days later.

However her anxiety that her sons would not survive made her disoriented and incoherent. Her husband says he is glad he found his wife but worries that “she has not spoken a word to her family members” and distressed that his little Nimra was killed.

A resident of Dhoke Ahmed Gali, Gujar Khan, Saeed Asghar said that he took his distressed wife to BBH doctors who prescribed some medicine to her.

Published in Dawn, January 28th, 2016

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