LAHORE: Former PML-N MPA Yasmeen Khan was found dead at her house in Defence here on Saturday morning.

She was living alone at her Rehman Villas residence situated near Bhatta Chowk. Neighbours alerted South Cantt police when they noticed a foul smell emitting from the house. Police followed by forensic experts reached the house, found Yasmeen, 55, dead and shifted her body to the city morgue for postmortem.

Quoting initial inquiries, the police said Yasmeen seemed to have been dead for four to five days and she could have died of a cardiac arrest.

Cantt Division Investigation Superintendent of Police (SP) Dr Anoosh Masood Chaudhry told Dawn that some neighbours had reported to police about a foul smell emitting from the deceased woman’s residence. The police broke into the locked house and found Yasmeen lying dead in a chair in her bedroom.

Everything was intact showing no signs of resistance, she said, adding the police also found an inhaler lying near Yasmeen’s body.

Dr Chaudhry claimed the presence of an inhaler indicated the deceased could be asthmatic, which could have caused a cardiac arrest and instant death. Yasmeen’s two children living in Rawalpindi had been informed of the death, she added.

Dr Chaudhry said the police had collected a footage from the CCTV camera installed outside her residence that showed her last entry to home on March 19. In the footage she could be seen locking her doors from inside, and no signs of anyone else entering since then, the SP added.

The reports of postmortem and some other tests were awaited by the Punjab Forensic Science Agency that would help finalise the investigation, Dr Chaudhry said, adding a first information report would be lodged on the basis of these reports.

Published in Dawn, March 25th, 2018