MIANWALI:
A mother of seven ended her life by consuming poison pills along with her two daughters during a domestic dispute in Mohalla Selwan, Kundian, on Saturday.
A sense of shock and mourning spread through the neighborhood after the incident.
According to details obtained by The Express PAkGazette, Muhammad Tahir Qureshi, son of Allah Din, a resident of Mohalla Selwan, and his wife had a dispute over marriage proposals for their daughters. The husband allegedly pressured his daughters to accept the marriage proposals according to his wishes, while the wife and daughters did not agree to the proposals.
As a result of the dispute, Tahir’s wife and daughters, Anza, 12, and Asma, 11, swallowed a poisonous substance.
The mother and her two daughters were taken to a rural health centre, where the doctor referred them to Mianwali DHQ hospital after receiving immediate medical assistance. However, the three victims could not survive.
As soon as the incident was reported, Kundian police and Rescue 1122 teams reached the spot. After the autopsy was performed and the police completed the legal procedure, the bodies were handed over to the heirs.
Cases where several members of the same family committed suicide or were murdered by their own family have also been previously reported in the province.
On Monday, a woman allegedly poisoned herself and four other members of her family due to financial problems in Okara.
A poor worker from Okara, Nazar Mohammad, who could not repay a loan, was struggling to make ends meet, so his family often quarreled over financial issues.
Nazar’s son Waqas Ahmed, 20, married Naheed, 19, two months ago. The couple lived in the Ghouspura neighborhood of Basirpur town, Okara, with Nazar, his 45-year-old wife and their children, Ashfaq Ahmed, 18, and Sattar Ahmed, 16.
The family reportedly had a debt of Rs 150,000. The whole family was worried about paying the debt and there were often altercations in the house.
Naheed’s in-laws often pressured her to bring money from her father to clear the debt.
Naheed was reportedly fed up with the daily fights and allegedly fed her in-laws food containing poison, due to which her husband Waqas and her brother-in-law Ashfaq died, while her other brother-in-law, aged 16, died. Sattar Ahmed and his mother-in-law were seriously affected.
In March last year, a man shot dead his wife and three children during a domestic dispute, before committing suicide in Rai Chand area of Chiniot.
In April 2019, a man committed suicide after killing his father and sisters over a family dispute related to his ex-wife, whom he wanted to remarry, in Shafiqabad, Lahore.
Published in The Express PAkGazette, June 28th2020.
