FAISALABAD, Nov 10: An alleged trafficker, who has for a month been fighting for life at the Allied Hospital, breathed her last on Wednesday night.

Reports said the Anti-Narcotics Squad arrested on May 27 last a Singapore national, Meri Chen Sui Mai, from the Faisalabad international airport when she tried to smuggle heroin. She was sent to the district jail after registration of a case.

About a month ago, the prisoner felt pain in her body and her condition deteriorated but the jail administration and doctors refused to provide her medical treatment, believing that she might be feigning illness to get undue favour.

After a suicide threat from the captive, however, the prison authorities shifted her to the District Headquarters Hospital from where she was referred to the Allied Hospital owing to her critical condition.

FACULTY: Prof Dr Asif Iqbal Khan, the vice-chancellor of the Government College University, has said highly qualified faculty has been engaged to improve the quality of research-based.

Speaking to the participants at a meeting of the Review Committee of Higher Education Commission, he claimed that this budding institution was under pressure to start a professional programme for businessmen. It had accordingly launched various commercial programmes, in addition to industrial chemistry and banking and finance.

These programmes, he said, were gradually experiencing a qualitative improvement.