TOBA TEK SINGH: An international snooker player committed suicide in Samundri (Faisalabad district) on Thursday.

Deceased Muhammad Majid Ali, 29, had won silver medal in the 2013 Asian Under 21 Snooker Championship and bronze in the 2018 World 6-Red Snooker Championship. His brother Rashid Ali told reporters that for the last few years he had been suffering from depression and was taking medicines prescribed by a doctor of Faisalabad.

He said as soon as a cow was slaughtered by his family for sacrifice on Eid day, he immediately switched on an electric saw machine installed at their family’s furniture workshop and put his neck on iron blade and died instantly.

Former two-time world snooker champion Muhammad Asif said he met Majid a week before and apparently he looked depressed but was ready to play Pakistan National Circuit after the lapse of one or two years.

Pakistan Billiard and Snooker Association chairman and media manager Alamgir Sheikh and Naveed Kapadia said Majid Ali was a thorough gentleman.

Published in Dawn, July 2nd, 2023

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