TOBA TEK SINGH: Police on Monday registered a case against four people, including a clinic owner, a midwife and a nurse after a woman died during a botched delivery in Mamukanjan, Faisalabad.

Scores of people staged a protest after the death of Khurshid Bibi, the wife of complainant Ali Raza of Chak 556-GB. She had been brought to Mian Clinic, where an untrained midwife performed a cesarean section. Khurshid Bibi died due to excessive bleeding.

The protesters demanded that a murder case be registered against the midwife and her accomplices.

Later, Tandlianwala DSP Masood Nazir held talks with the protesters, assuring them that a case would be registered, after which the protest ended.

A case was registered under sections 302 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code against clinic owner Adnan, midwife Amna, nurse Fakhra and their accomplice Nasir. However, no arrests have been made as they all fled after locking the clinic and the adjacent pharmacy.

Faisalabad District Health Authority CEO Dr Asfand Yar has sealed both the clinic and the pharmacy.

RALLY: The Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF) held a rally on connection with Kashmir Exploitation Day which was attended by Vice Chancellor Dr Nasir Amin, Director of Student Affairs Dr Babak Mehmood, Director of Care Counseling and Alumni Affairs Dr Abdul Qadir Mushtaq, and Librarian Sakhawat Hussain, along with students.

Dr Nasir Amin addressed the participants, stating that ending the special status of Occupied Kashmir is a crude fantasy of India, as Pakistan has a close geographical and fraternal relationship with Kashmiris.

He said Aug 5 is the darkest chapter in the history of Jammu and Kashmir, and emphasised that Pakistan would continue to provide full political, diplomatic and moral support to Kashmiris until the logical end of their freedom struggle.

DIES: A youth who killed his two stepbrothers in the Sherazabad locality, within the Abdul Hakeem police station area of Khanewal district, died of a heart attack on Monday at the rural health centre in Abdul Hakeem.

Reports said suspect Munir Ahmad Bhutta had a family and property feud with his brothers and killed them early on Sunday morning.

He was arrested by the police shortly after committing the double murder.

Munir experienced chest pain late on Sunday and was subsequently shifted to Abdul Hakeem RHC, where he expired.

DRUGS SEIZED: The Airport Security Force (ASF) seized 804 grams of ice from a Jeddah-bound passenger at the Multan airport.

An ASF official said Abdul Majeed of Shikarpur had filled ice in two branded bottles of shampoo to smuggle to Saudi Arabia. The suspect as well as seized drug had been handed over to the Anti Narcotics Force for further legal action.

Published in Dawn, August 6th, 2024