HARIPUR: Unknown assailants shot dead a senior gynaecologist and managing director of a private hospital here on the night between Saturday and Sunday over unknown reasons, police and family sources said.

The city police quoted some staff members and patients admitted to the Mother Care Hospital Haripur, a private healthcare facility of the city, as saying that they heard the gunshots fired from the office of Dr Shaista Tariq, the gynaecologist and managing director of the hospital, at around 9.30pm on Saturday night. They said when they rushed towards her office they found her lying injured, but failed to see anyone around the place.

The area people shifted the injured physician to the district headquarters hospital, Haripur, where the doctors pronounced her dead.

According to doctors, she suffered two bullets, one on the right side of the forehead and the other on the right shoulder, but the shot that hit her in the head proved fatal and caused her death.

Meanwhile, the deceased’s son, Ehtesham Sadiq lodged an FIR with the police, stating that he was out of the city when at around 10pm he received information that his mother was shot and injured. He said when he reached the hospital he found his mother dead.

He did not nominate anyone in the FIR for the murder of his mother. However, according to police sources, the deceased’s husband, Dr Tariq Sadiq, also a dental surgeon, was taken into custody and being questioned.

The deceased was daughter-in-law of late Dr Mohammad Sadiq, owner of a private healthcare facility in the Haripur city.

Published in Dawn, June 11th, 2018