KARACHI: A woman, who was living alone in Defence Housing Authority, died after falling from her fourth-floor apartment during a police raid, officials said on Sunday.

Darakhshan SHO Shahid Taj said that they had arrested a man, identified as Ubaid, in a drug case as part of an ongoing crackdown on narcotics.

During interrogation, the suspect disclosed that a woman, Afsheen, was his partner in the alleged drug business.

On the information extracted from him, a police party raided Afsheen’s flat in Muslim Commercial Area to arrest her on Saturday night. The policemen knocked on the door several times but she did not open it.

The SHO said that the raiding team called her parents and a few of her friends also reached there, but she did not surrender herself to police and tried to escape from the balcony.

He claimed that she tried to climb down from a “water pipe which collapsed and she fell”.

The woman suffered critical injuries and was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where she died during treatment.

Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed said that her father took away the body without allowing an autopsy.

The area SHO said that she lived alone at the flat after separation from her husband some five years ago.

He claimed that drugs were recovered from the flat.

Published in Dawn, March 17th, 2025