GUJRANWALA: One of the four students who swallowed wheat pills over their failure to get through the ninth class annual examination died at the DHQ Hospital here on Thursday.

Reports said Saim Rafiq of Gill Road, Sheeza, Aslam Hidayat of Kashmir Road and Abdullah of Gulberg Colony took wheat pills in dejection. They were rushed to DHQ Hospital where Rafique died while the condition of the remaining students was said to be critical. Police are looking into the matter.

Murdered

The brother of a Tehreek Minhajul Quran’s local official was shot dead by unidentified attackers on Sargodha Road on Thursday.

Malik Muhammad Afzal, brother of TMQ local vice-president Malik Muhammad Arshad of Naushera Road, was returning home from Islamabad by his car, along with three others on motorway.

Near Kot Momin interchange, Sargodha Road, four unidentified armed men signaled the car to stop. Instead, Afzal tried to speed away but they opened indiscriminate fire. A bullet hit Afzal who died on the spot.

Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Dr Tahirul Qadri condemned the killing during his speech at Islamabad.

Published in Dawn, August 22nd, 2014