Governor Sardar Latif Khosa expressed grief and shock and announced that the family of Sughran Bibi, who was the mother of a Pakistan People’s Party worker, would be given Rs500,000 as compensation.
Sialkot District Police Officer Bilal Siddique said that the car, which was carrying official Governor’s House photographers and camera men, had been impounded and its driver taken into custody.
He said a first information report would soon be lodged against the driver, identified as Khizar Hayat.
Amjad Khan, a family friend of the deceased, said that Sughran, whose husband Muhammad Ashraf is a property dealer, was returning home after a wedding at the Four Star Marriage Hall when she was run over by the car.
He said the accident was the driver’s fault entirely as he was speeding. “The rest of the governor’s cavalcade had left around 10 minutes earlier and one car had been left behind,” he said. Ishtiaq Ameen, public relations officer for Governor’s House, told The Express Tribune that Khosa would visit the family of the deceased to extend his condolences and hand them Rs500,000.
He said that the driver of the car, a Nissan Patrol, would be brought to justice. He confirmed that the car had been trailing the rest of the governor’s convoy.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 6th, 2011.
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