Author: News Desk

A water tanker crushed a man and his pregnant wife to death in Karachi on Monday, causing the expectant mother to prematurely deliver the baby who also died minutes later. 

Abdul Qayum, 26, was taking his wife Zainab, 24, on a motorcycle for a medical checkup when a speeding water tanker hit the pair near Malir Halt. The couple was killed while Zainab delivered the baby in the aftermath of the collision. The premature baby did not survive past a few minutes. 

Enraged bystanders tried to set the tanker on fire but were stopped by law enforcing agencies. Police suspect that the tanker’s brakes failed as it sped down the Malir Halt bridge at high speed. The driver and his helper have been arrested while the tanker has been impounded. 

Qayum’s brother Mohammad Sohail told the media that the deceased couple got married one year earlier. The late Qayum had been working for Malir Cantonment Board and resided in Malir Cantt. 

At least 214 people have lost their lives in traffic incidents in Karachi in the past three months. At least 68 of these deaths have been a result of accidents involving heavy vehicles such as tankers and trailers.

Police in Lahore have arrested three men on suspicions of gang-raping a woman and are conducting raids to find another suspect. 

A girl had told the police that the Waseem Akram, Shahzad, Adnan and Arshad had raped her in a house in the city and warned her not to report the rape to the police. Police have arrested the first three while Arshad remains missing. 

A spokesperson told an English daily that one of the men had summoned the girl from Sahiwal and taken her to his relative’s house. There, he called his accomplices and later gang-raped the girl. 

Police have filed a case against the suspects under section 375A (gang rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code, at Chung police station.

A pet dog proved his exceptional loyalty by unearthing its owner Umer Hayat’s body after he had been killed and burned in a garbage dump, a leading English daily has reported. 

Residents of a village in Chichawatni observed a pet dog digging away in a burnt garbage dump on February 18. Some time later, the dog unearthed human feet from the rubbish and alerted villagers and a landlord named Nadeem Abbas Shah, who had employed Umer to work at his farm. 

Police investigations revealed that Umer’s wife Shamim and her brother Fida Hussain murdered Umer between the nights of February 13 and 14, disfigured his face so that he could not be recognised and then burning his body in a garbage dump, setting it on fire to conceal the killing. 

Both the siblings were arrested on Monday. 

 The police were alerted on February 18 about the presence of human remains by Bilal Nawaz, a resident of the village, who had seen the dog digging up the garbage. Police arrived at the scene and discovered a decomposed and unidentifiable body in the rubbish heap. 

Despite an autopsy, the body remained unidentified till police received a tip from the villagers who said Umer Hayat worked at Nadeem Abbas’ farm. There, the police was told that Umer had worked at the farm along with his wife Shamim and four children since two years. He was originally a resident of Multan and was often referred to as Multani. 

Nadeem Abbas told the police that Umer had left the job a few days before the body was discovered and shifted back to Khanewal, his wife’s hometown. 

Umer’s mother was contacted by the police who admitted that her son was missing but did not identify the feet as belonging to her son. A few days after police questioned them on not reporting Umer’s absence and taking DNA samples, the mother identified the feet. 

Further investigations revealed that while Shamim said she left the farm with her husband, she arrived in her village only with her children and her brother Fida Hussain. 

Police unearthed evidence that both Shamim and Umer had been having affairs. Shamim finally confessed to the police that Umer had confronted her on the affair and been violent with her. She had then recruited her brother Fida Hussain to kill Umer, disfiguring his face with bricks, and burning his body in the garbage. 

Both the brother and sister now await trial.