RAWALPINDI: Police have arrested a mother of five who allegedly killed her two-and-a-half-month-old son by tossing him into a nullah in Phaphril village of Murree, police said on Thursday.

The body of the infant was recovered by the police from nullah Balwar and shifted to hospital for postmortem. Later, an FIR was registered against the woman on the complaint of her husband.

The wife of Jehangeer Ahmad, who had five sons, told the police that she committed the crime because she was unable to take care of him, said a police source.

Mr Ahmad, a resident of Gohra Dhoke Balwar Phaphril village of Murree, told the police that he worked as an office boy in a bank.

After performing duty he was returning home on Wednesday when one of his close relatives Mohammad Zahoor informed him that his wife had thrown the infant, Mohammad Mujtaba, into Balwar nullah and the residents of the area were searching for him. He said after reaching home when he asked his wife Nabila Kausar, who is mentally unstable, she replied that she could not take care of her son and threw him into the nullah.

After the postmortem, the body of the infant was handed over to the family.

Published in Dawn, September 4th, 2026