ISLAMABAD: A government employee on Tuesday committed suicide so his son could get a job, police and officials of the Pak Secretariat said.

Mohammad Iqbal was nearing the age of retirement and worked in the interior ministry’s administration. According to officials, he was trying to get his son a job at the ministry before he retired.

“He asked many officials but they said they could not give his son a job and that doing so was beyond their jurisdiction. There is no law for offering an employee’s relative a job after they retire but their kin are given a job if they die or are killed during service,” an official explained.

He said Iqbal came to the R-Block of the secretariat which houses the interior ministry with his son, climbed to the roof and jumped. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Separately, the Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) of the capital police arrested two car thieves and recovered stolen cars from their possession on Tuesday, police officials said.

During an investigation, an ACLC tracked down a gang of car thieves and arrested two of its members who confessed to stealing cars from across Islamabad including Sihala and Kohsar.

Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2017