ISLAMABAD - A man committed suicide after killing his wife and two daughters here at sector I-10 on Wednesday. However, 14-year-old teenager, somehow, managed to escape wrath of his father. According to police, Afzal Raza, resident of I-10, shot his two college-going daughters and wife before ...

LAHORE – A 30-year-old man committed suicide by swallowing poisonous pills in the Johar Town area, police said on Wednesday. The family told the police that Muhammad Akbar consumed poisonous pills after he exchanged harsh words with his brothers over some domestic dispute. The resident of ...

HARIPUR - A female student of Matriculation has committed suicide in an examination hall in Haripur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said on Wednesday.The police said that Natasha Habib, 16, shot herself during her practical exam in her school. “Her body has been taken into ...

RAWALPIDNI – A 25-years-old young boy ended his life by swallowing poisonous pills at Dhoke Munshi within the limits of Police Station Airport here on Wednesday.Police, upon call, rushed to the scene and moved the dead body to District Headquarter Hospital, where doctors carried out ...

FAISALABAD - A poverty-stricken man committed suicide after killing his wife and five children in Faisalabad in the remit of Khurianwala Police on Tuesday.Fifty five-year-old Qasim, a resident of 109village near Jaranwala Road was facing severe financial constraints and was mentally upset for a ...

RAWALPINDI - A 30-year-old man committed suicide due to unemployment here at Allahabad on Tuesday.Police shifted the dead body to District Headquarter Hospital (DHQ) for autopsy. The deceased was identified as Nayyar Abbas son of Muhammad Ashraf (late). According to Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) ...

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Jehangir Badar said on Sunday that some people are trying to politicize the court’s verdict. Badar also said that Nawaz Sharif is committing a grave mistake by launching the long march. Talking in a press conference here on Sunday, he said Sharif ...

LAHORE – A newly-wed girl committed suicide by swallowing poisonous pills here in Chungi Amarsidhu area, police said on Monday. Police said the girl, identified as Nazia Bibi, took poisonous pills after she exchanged harsh words with her husband, Muhammad Akram. She was rushed to a local ...

LAHORE – A college student committed suicide by swallowing poisonous pills here in Shahdada Area, police said on Tuesday. The deceased’s family told the police that Nadra Liaqat, 18, wanted to reappear in the Fsc examination but she took poisonous pills when her parents discouraged her. ...

UNITED NATIONS – Pakistan, which has 8,000 troops serving UN peacekeeping missions across Africa, Thursday joined South Africa in sponsoring a resolution calling for enhancing the ties between the UN and the African Union that the 15-member body adopted unanimously.Under the terms of the ...

SARGODHA - A young girl committed suicide by jumped in front of a moving train near railway station here on Friday. According eye-witnesses, a girl, apparently 22-year-old, wearing a veil was strolling near rail track near Zafar Colony in the remit of Urban Area Police. When a train reached there ...

GARHI KHUDA BUX/UCH SHARIF (INP) - PPP activists annoyed over the party policies and attitude towards workers attempted to commit suicide on the occasion of fourth death anniversary of slain party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto here on Tuesday.According to details 20 to 25 PPP activists hailing from ...

Former President Pervez Musharrafs ex-ADC Major (Retd) Tanvir Ahmed has committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, a media report said on Thursday, quoting police. Tanvirs body was recovered from his residence located in Sector-11 in Islamabad. Police have started further investigations ...

QUETTA (APP) - A jail warden committed suicide within premises of jail in the provincial capital on late Friday night. The jail warden Habibur Rehman committed suicide when he was on duty in the jail premises, police said adding that he received a bullet in his head which caused his death. The ...

LAHORE A 20-year-old man committed suicide due to poverty here in Samanabad police precincts on Friday. Police said that Baqir Ali, resident of Chowk Rasool Park, committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan. The family told the police that Baqir Ali tied his knot just three months ...

LAHORE A 40-year-old woman committed suicide by jumping into in the lake situated in Minar-e-Pakistan ground here on Thursday, police and eyewitnesses said. Eyewitnesses told the police that the woman, yet to be identified so far, jumped into the lake after taking a stroll in the ground. The ...

LAHORE A eunuch committed suicide under mysterious circumstances in Samanabad police area on Friday. Police investigators believed the eunuch was emotionally hurt. The deceased eunuch, Wasim Masih, had developed relations with his friend who avoided visiting him for the last several days over ...

ISLAMABAD An aggrieved taxi driver committed suicide by firing bullet into his head, here in G-10/2. Sources informed that Farman Ali, resident of house No.294, street No.15, sector G-11/2 had dispute with her wife, resident of sector G-10/2. His wife left his house because of certain differences. ...

LAHORE - A 17-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging herself by the ceiling fan after her parents refused to tie her knot with the boy of her choice here in Green Town area, police said on Monday. The girl identified as Bushra Bibi, daughter of Aashiq Ahmed, an artisan by profession and ...

LAHORE (PR) - To help the victims of Pakistans disaster of heavy rains and flooding affecting upwards of 14 million people, the Western Union Company (NYSE:WU), Tuesday announced a number of disaster relief efforts in support of Pakistan, including: grants; consumer, agent and employee donation ...

SINGER Marie Osmond was said to be 'devastated and in pieces on Saturday night after her troubled adopted son committed suicide by jumping from the roof of his Los Angeles apartment. Michael Blosil, 18, left a suicide note for his family saying he had decided to end his life because of the 'torment ...

LAHORE - A mentally retarded paramour Thursday gunned down four persons of the same family, including three women and a minor over marriage dispute, and later committed suicide in Millat Park police precincts. The deceased were identified as Zeenat Razaq, 15, her brother Zainulabidin, 2, her ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israels former top TV entertainer hanged himself in jail on Thursday, bringing to a dramatic end a saga of faded stardom and vivid violence that won him the attention of a national audience that once adored him. Known in the past as the king of TV ratings, Dudu Topaz, 62, had ...

LONDON (AFP) - The son of tragedy-scarred poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has killed himself 46 years after his mother infamously gassed herself, The Times reported on Monday. Nicholas Hughes hanged himself in his home in the US state of Alaska last week after battling depression, his sister ...

LAHORE - A 24-year-old staff nurse of the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital committed suicide by swallowing poisonous pills a week after her paramour ended his life in a rented house near the hospital. The hospital administration hushed up the incident of mysterious deaths of the staff nurse and the youth ...

BARVIKHA, Russia (AFP) - Russia agreed Monday to withdraw all troops from Georgia within a month but reaffirmed its support for the independence of two rebel regions where Russian forces will remain. The new timetable was announced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the head of an EU ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US government scientist has committed suicide just as he was about to be charged in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks that sparked widespread panic in the United States, US media reported Friday. Bruce Ivins, 62, had worked for 18 years at the US biodefence research ...

A young woman identified by local media as Ruslana Korshunova, a supermodel born in Kazakhstan, plunged to her death from a Manhattan apartment on Saturday in what appears to be a suicide. Ruslana Korshunova, 20, died around 2:30 p.m. after she fell from a Building on Water Street, in ...