TOBA TEK SINGH: A woman shot at and injured her husband before taking her own life in Gulshan Ali Town of Faisalabad on Wednesday.

Reports said Dil Awaiz, 25, and her husband Muhammad Arsalan, 27, quarrelled over an issue.

According to D-Type Colony police, the woman first fired at her husband and then shot herself. Both were seriously injured. The woman died instantly, while her husband was shifted to the DHQ hospital.

ENCOUNTER: Two brothers, wanted by Faisalabad police, were killed in a shootout in Vehari’s Karampur area of Mailsi on Wednesday.

Faisalabad Saddar DSP Waseem Faraz was wounded in the crossfire and shifted to the Vehari DHQ hospital.

The police raided the area to arrest the outlaws, Waqas Shah and Gulfam Shah, who were wanted for multiple crimes in Faisalabad’s Khuddian Warraichan locality.

The police said they conducted the raid in Vehari district and both Waqas and Gulfam were killed, while DSP Faraz was injured by the bullets fired by the outlaws’ accomplices.

The deceased were proclaimed offenders involved in several robberies, murders, and extortion cases.

HELD: Gojra City police arrested the alleged killers of lawyer Irfan Samra on Wednesday.

Samra was shot dead on April 16 on Painsara Road in Gojra.

A police spokesperson said that police arrested Shamshad, Haseeb and Atif who had a dispute with the diseased over a plot, which led to an argument and the subsequent murder.

SEMINAR: A seminar on the ‘Prevention of HIV and provision of equal medical facilities’ was organised by the Citizen Social Welfare Foundation (CSW), a member of the Trans Rights Protection Network, in cooperation with the Good Thinkers Organisation on Wednesday. Speakers said it was the fundamental right of the transgender community to receive healthcare without discrimination, saying that they often face hatred, abuse and neglect, especially if they are HIV patients.

Population Welfare Department Deputy Director Mian Muhammad Naeem said there was need for educational and training programmes to eliminate discrimination against HIV patients.

Dr Hira Asghar said that HIV is transmitted through sexual contact, direct contact with contaminated blood and from mother to child during pregnancy.

Published in Dawn, July 11th, 2024