TOBA TEK SINGH: A woman, who was allegedly shot at and injured by her brother over a marriage dispute one month ago, and was locked in the house to hide the incident, breathed her last without any treatment in her house on Thursday.

The Kamalia city police registered the first information report with the sub-inspector Syed Inayat Ali as complainant, that the residents of Saran Dogran locality of Kamalia alerted them that Sobia Perveen, was allegedly shot at and injured by her brother Muhammad Tahir one month ago and the family did not take her to any hospital to conceal the incident.

When she died on Thursday, residents alerted the police, which got the body examined at the Kamalia Tehsil Headquarters hospital. The autopsy confirmed Sobia died due to bullet wounds. The family is at large.

FIRE: Four animals were burnt alive and 11 others and their owner suffered burn injuries in a fire on Thursday at a cattle pen in Pirmahal’s chak 757 GB. The form belonged to Muhammad Akram. Villagers controlled the fire.

SUICIDE: A woman committed suicide under a train on Thursday. Naseem Akhtar’s son, Muhammad Imran (17) had also committed suicide few months ago by taking poison. She was the wife of grocery merchant of Sarhand Colony Haji Muhammad Aslam.

HELD: Banned Sipah Sahaba Pakistan’s activist Muhammad Awais was arrested on Thursday. Police said he on the fourth schedule list under which he was bound to inform the police before leaving the city but he remained out of the city for few days without fulfilling the condition.

Published in Dawn, April 20th, 2018

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