SWABI: A man allegedly shot dead his stepmother following exchange of harsh words over domestic issues in Musakhel area of Kotha village here on Saturday, said police.

When contacted,officials of Topi tehsil police station said that husband of the deceased woman had passed away a few years ago and she was living in a house adjacent to the stepsons’.

They said the suspect Shahzad Bahadar forced his way into her house in the morning and during exchange of hot words suddenly opened fire on her with a pistol, leaving her seriously injured.

She was taken to tehsil headquarters hospital, Topi, where doctors pronounced her dead.

Musa Khan, stepbrotherof the suspect, registered an FIR and the police have started investigations into the case.

DISTINCTION: Prof Ghulam Hussain, who teaches in Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, has been included in the World’s Top 2 per cent leading scientists.

He told mediapersons on Saturday that Stanford University had recently published an update of the list of World’s Top 2 per cent scientists and that this ranking was drawn from a database of over eight million active scientists worldwide.

“I have been listed in this ranking in both single year and career lists,” he elaborated.

Prof Hussain belongs to Burewala ,Punjab. He did his BSc Mechanical Engineering from UET, Lahore, in 1996, and Master’s and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2009. He has been working at the GIK Institute since 2015.

Currently, Prof Hussain is working on emerging processes such as incremental forming, friction stir welding and processing, deformation machining, 3D printing and hybridisation of the processes.

Published in Dawn, January 9th, 2022