The body of a woman was found from a canal near Sheikhupura on Sunday.
Her husband, a resident of Thatta Khokhran village, told police that she had jumped into the canal following an argument with him. He said she had left home and he didn’t follow her. Later, he said, he was informed that she had jumped into the canal. Police said the body had been sent for a post-mortem examination. The deceased was a mother of three.
In Bahawalpur, a 22-year-old man committed suicide after his parents refused to help him marry the girl he wanted to.
Police said the man, a resident of Khanwala Colony in Khairpur Tamewali, wanted to marry a cousin, but his parents did not approve of the proposal.
On Sunday, his parents said, he locked himself in a room and swallowed a pesticide. They said when he did not come out, they broke the door and found him lying unconscious. They took him to the tehsil headquarters hospital, from where he was referred to Bahawal Victoria Hospital, but he died on the way.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 15th, 2013.