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A girl died and another was injured in the early hours of Saturday after an enraged man fired aerial shots upon discovering his apartment was being used for a party in the Bahria Town housing society in Rawalpindi.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Civil Lines Kazim Naqvi talking to DawnNews, revealed that the apartment owner, Nadir, who owns a car showroom on Committee Chowk, had returned to his flat in Bahria Town's Safari Villas One early in the morning. Upon seeing two boys and two girls occupying the apartment, he "could not contain his anger" and fired in the air.
The DSP informed that out of fear, the two girls, Bisma and Shimla, jumped out of the window of the fifth-storey apartment. Bisma died on the spot while Shimla suffered from a broken leg.
He added that police reached the apartment and arrested Nadir and recovered the weapon used. The police also arrested an accomplice, Zulqarnain.
Two other accomplices — Shiraz, who had given the youngsters access to the apartment, and Azan — managed to flee.
"A postmortem examination of the dead girl will be carried out which will uncover the cause of death," he said, adding that the injured girl's statement will also be recorded.
"The girls' families have been notified and a case will be registered," he said.
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Mar 03, 2018 07:28pm
Tragic! A senseless death!
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Mar 03, 2018 07:43pm
Why is the owner of the apt being arrested? If an unknown person is found in someone else house house what will they do ? Why were these Yongster there probably to do something unethical.
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Mar 03, 2018 07:44pm
These youngster parents should be arrested for not controlling their children.
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Mar 03, 2018 07:49pm
It must be the apartment owners family member who gave access to it.
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Mar 03, 2018 08:08pm
Illegally occupying a space belonging to someone else comes in encroachment. The owner fired in the air to warn the intruders that he was armed and was ready to take action to defend his property. If a case is field it should be against the encroachers and those who enabled them to get inside the apartment. The parents of the kids should also be punished for their lack of vigilance.
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Mar 03, 2018 08:10pm
Well, the owner should not be made responsible for the death, however, he should not have shot fires. This is not something ethical!
Definitely, the girls must have jumped in fear of being caught by parents.
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Mar 03, 2018 08:16pm
Shameful. Gun and violence culture in Pakistan is unbearable.
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Mar 03, 2018 08:36pm
The country’ s criminal justice system is so weird ; the owner is being punished for attempting to protect his property from squatters. He didn’t shoot in the air he could have been attcked and even killed but his action warned the intruders that he is armed and will use his arm to protect himself and his property. That was logical . He didn’t kill anyone and even if he did it would be in self-defence! The police was created to defend the citizens and their property from encroachment and not to be a tool of harassment and distress. The police only only fulfills it’s duty to the political elite and treats the public with contempt even though they are “public servants”!
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Mar 03, 2018 08:42pm
I think every situation should warrant a proportional response. We don't know why he discharged his weapon. Perhaps the youngsters threatened him, but even then firing into the air in a closed apartment makes little sense. I think the question of whether or not he deserves to be punished depends on whether he had the situation under control and fired the weapon for no good reason, or if he was in genuine fear for his life and discharged his gun in order to frighten the trespassers. If it is the former, he should be punished for his reckless endangering of life or pay diyat to the girl's family; if it is the latter, I think he can't be held responsible for the disproportionate reaction of the girls. However, given that both girls leapt out of the building suggests that the situation was frightening enough that they had to take such drastic measures. However, in Pakistan offences such as these rarely reach completion and are settled out of court by the relevant parties.
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Mar 03, 2018 08:48pm
Arrest owner as he had no right to fire
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Mar 03, 2018 08:49pm
Why the owner didn't inform police, why he fire in the air and from where he has own the gun.
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Mar 03, 2018 08:54pm
The girls did not flee due to shots, these are common in Pakistan and all provincial govts have failed to control arial firing. They fled or jumped because they do not want their families to know. that was the panic basically.
Also arial firing solution has been developed by a university in USA years ago. Pakistan can also develop that indigenously
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Mar 03, 2018 08:58pm
Why is the owner of the house being arrested. He was defending his property from intruders. The four intruders should be arrested for being in there illegally.
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Mar 03, 2018 09:04pm
@hello - "Why is the owner of the apt being arrested?"
Is insane firing like that and scaring the hell out of people justified? The unfortunate result is out there!
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Mar 03, 2018 09:49pm
No one survives a fall from the fifth floor or higher unless something on the way down, like an awning, breaks the fall.
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Mar 03, 2018 09:55pm
Situations that can be handled easily by discussion, end up in murders and suicides in Pakistan. People are carrying guns but don't have any sense how to use it. They should never put their finger on the trigger. Never. That is a basic rule, unfortunately unfathomable by weapon users of Pakistan.
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Mar 03, 2018 09:56pm
Someone that irresponsible should not carry a gun. There were other ways to handle the situation. He could easily have thought someone was robbing the apartment, but he had the gun. He could have gone up there. It was a tragic mistake by someone.
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Mar 03, 2018 10:01pm
And we are talking about banning guns in America!
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Mar 03, 2018 10:18pm
@hello , If an owner finds his house occupied by teenagers , he is not suppose to take his gun out , istead he puts all four to questions as to why and how they landed up there , OH i am sorry i forgot we are discussing an uncivilised country
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Mar 03, 2018 10:36pm
No gun control in Pakistan. Lawless county
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Mar 03, 2018 10:36pm
A lawless country
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Mar 03, 2018 10:42pm
@hello you call police!
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Mar 03, 2018 11:09pm
Sad!
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Mar 04, 2018 12:20am
Well the young folks were trespassing!Isn't that illegal!If you break the law you suffer some consequences!
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Mar 04, 2018 01:01am
The man over reacted .. firing and the young have to jump from ... tragic loss of precious life..
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Mar 04, 2018 01:18am
If the owner of the apartment found someone in the house without his permission, he should notfire his gun but call the police.
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Mar 04, 2018 03:21am
@rizwan ! There are always options to handle a situation. No one should have to die for some stupid mistake.
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Mar 04, 2018 03:23am
@hello he shouldn’t have fired.... common
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Mar 04, 2018 03:41am
@shahid and what if he had not realised that the trespassers were just teenagers having some fun and thought they were robbers? Honestly, we still do not know. Until the full story is out and we have a statement from the injured girl...
Nevertheless, he should be charged for discharging the firearm like that at most. Especially if he was indoors (particularly dangerous). He should not be charged for the death.
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Mar 04, 2018 04:21am
@shahid Sir in civilized country people have right to defend there home mainly with gun. But in civilized country they provided many different way to entrant there young generation and give them open freedom. Imagine young couples sitting together in resturtant or park among Pakistani people. What really happened is real tragedy but nobody fault. Price for our eastern values.
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Mar 04, 2018 04:52am
Owner must be punished for firing without a proper reason.
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Mar 04, 2018 05:04am
@hello unless they were adults
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Mar 04, 2018 05:19am
This is sad to happen in this country. Let the youth enjoy its their life so should not interfere instead of being rigid and fanatic.
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Mar 04, 2018 05:54am
@rizwan not death though mate...
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Mar 04, 2018 06:05am
@Alba He should have called the police.
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Mar 04, 2018 07:12am
@Wahid UK The law of the land says to use a force which is justifiable and proportionate.
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Mar 05, 2018 12:57am
He did not fire at the trespassers. Why should he even be arrested if he had a valid gun licence. Police is trying to over perform here when there is no case here.
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Mar 05, 2018 12:58am
@Shoaib he had all the rights. Its his house not theirs.
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Mar 05, 2018 04:55am
Very very sad,an young life lost.
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Mar 05, 2018 08:54am
@hello what is the fault of the parents never talk silly we do,nt know what our children will do.
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Mar 05, 2018 11:04am
So sad...
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Mar 05, 2018 11:08am
How did both the girls jump from the balcony and die while both the boys were miraculously able to escape. There is something that the cops are not revealing.
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Mar 05, 2018 02:25pm
Something is very fishy here - Jumping from the fifth story is not easy and here two girls jumped. How did the two men managed to escape. Isn't there a possibility that the owner gave the girls only two choices - either jump out of the window or be shot by him and they had to jump! He just let the boys escape!
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Mar 06, 2018 02:06pm
@Shehreyar Khan Yeah! The law & Order situation in Pakistan is frightening.
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Mar 06, 2018 02:09pm
@Shehreyar Khan All other residents should have caught this fool with gun and should have been thrown out like the poor girls did.
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