Youth commits suicide after killing schoolmate
A motorcyclist caught in the traffic jam on Jail Road in front of the college was injured as two bullet shells hit him. He was taken to Services Hospital where the doctors who treated him described his condition as stable.
Police said Samar Wasti, 19, an intermediate in computer sciences student at KC, was talking to her father over cell phone to complain about Shams Alam, 23, who had stopped her on the bridge when the latter took out an automatic pistol and fired five shots at her. She died on the spot. They said Alam then shot himself dead.
Assistant Sub Inspector Riffat Bukhari said the deceased had been schoolfellows at Cathedral School. She said the two had been in contact ever since and that Alam had been trying to persuade Wasti to marry him.
The girl’s father, Naheed Wasti, said two months ago Alam had called him and asked him to wed his daughter to him. “I told him that my daughter was not interested in marrying him and advised him to get her off his mind.” He said Alam however continued trying to persuade her to marry him.
“Samar had just told me over the phone that he (Alam) had taken out a gun and was not letting her leave when I heard several gunshots,” Naheed said. The injured motorcyclist was identified as Bashir Ahmad. He said he was waiting for the traffic to move when something hit him twice on his back and he fell on the ground. “I tried getting up but could not,” he said. He was later taken by passersby to Services Hospital.
An FIR has been registered against Shams Alam under Section 302/324 of the Pakistan Penal Code at Race Course police station on Naheed Wasti’s complaint.
Meanwhile, Kinnaird College has announced a holiday on Tuesday and postponed the upcoming farewell ceremony for its outgoing batch of intermediate second year students. The principal has also convened a meeting of Samar’s classmates.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 18th, 2011.
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This is really sick. A 23 year old boy kills a 19 year old girl because she didnt want to marry him. I feel for the family of the girl, what they must be going through.
its high time now! we should stop arguing ,blaming . the question is are things going to remain like this? no would come forward and at least try to initiate a change. collectively we should ! choose a correct leader first of all....so all u here get your votes registered !! last date is 30th nov. be hopeful!!
More Important Topic need to discussed in Pakistan than to Gaddafi.
@fatima : What drove the boy to the edge of lunacy? The backdrop of this tragic incident will never see the light of day. We all will have our own versions to the whole incident.
@representin' broken men: You have got to be kidding!! It is sooooo typical of some sections of our society to use incidents like these to draw and 'verify' what they obviously think are very poignant observations about the nature of men and women. You don't even pause to think of the pain that your jahil and irrelevant comments can cause to the friends and families of the victims. A 19 year old was murdered by an obviously psychotic boy and you want to talk about what samar 'must have done' to 'drive' the nutcase to such violence. Dear sir you have been watching too many bollywood and lollywood movies and reading too much trash. even breaking a promise of marriage does not justify murder. and in case you werent justifying it, just explaining it, it is still a pretty ridiculous and very insensitive comment! Two young people have died tragically and you want to take this moment to expound on the infidelity of Pakistani women?!?! SHAME ON YOU!! shams wasnt a victim of this tragedy because he was jilted by an 'unfaithful' girl. he was a victim because he was obviously mentally unstable and ended up taking his life and that of another human being who is a much greater victim of this incident! For the love of God stop romanticizing this tragic incident!!
@umair:
you have to be supremely messed up in the head if you think it is 'fair' to murder someone if you are in love with them!! this guy was a mentally unstable murderer. NOT a love sick bollywood hero!!
@Asad: How can they both do matric from the same school, the boy was 23 the girl was 19. I find it highly unlikely that both were in the same school.
Students in co-education are desperate. Most of them come from environments with little interactions with the opposite sex. Once they reach a university or coeducation institution, their eyes are wide to see so many boys and girls desperate to grab one another. Then one thing leads to another.
The extent of tragedy of this episode can not be put into words. The loss that the girl's family have bore is unimaginable. but on a different note WHEN will our nation stop crying and blaming others for our faults? Please stop blaming Hollywood and Bollywood. They do not make those movies for you. They have a big enough audience for them even if no Pakistani watches those movies. Psychological disorder are not rare in any society. People are mentally sick. Accept it.
people are blaming others but actually it is because of us no one to blame of this stupidity than us not the media not the Bollywood not any one else just us Pakistanis. :@ :@ :@ wht more painful is the stupid lame comments of the people than the news it self... :( sham on all of u.
I hope after this all you guys and girl in colleges will keep your distance from each other. Or keep a gun yourself!
This is the height of sickness
Sometimes you read something so dreadful and shameless, that your only reaction is astonishment instead of anger. I mean, how can some of us come with justifications for a murder by calling it fair, lovers' quarrel etc? Nothing is fair about this girl losing her life. I can’t even imagine what the father must have gone through when he heard his daughter getting shot on the phone.
I guess in the past few years this country has witnessed so many deaths that we have developed a mechanism of showing detachment by uttering snooty comments so we can shrug and move on with our routines, such as i) got what she deserved, ii) all is fair in love and war, iii) why did she go there in the first place? iv) she must have provoked it, v) bad parenting by girl’s parents and “now they should suffer for it”. What about bad parenting on the part of the boy’s parents? It is an assumption in our country that all the attention needs to be given only to mold and train girls and not the boys who although require even more attention but are generally absolved of any wrong doing by saying, i) boys are boys, ii) jawani charhi c, iii) khud hee theek ho jaye ga.
Both the deceased were Christians.
@ Haider Muhammad K: The news is right man.. schoolmate here means when they both were in same school doing metric.. But then later the girl was in girls college.. Check the difference between school and college.. Anyhow the boy did not love the girl if he would then he wouldn't have killed her and harm her... The boy was surely a psycho and loser... Kinnaird College administration should take some measure if Government is not.. They should keep A guard themselves for the Security of their students not just sit inside the college. they are also responsible for this act in a way... @Loneliberal PK: i do not know why you people are after Bollywood and Hollywood.... you yourself go and protest when Pemra closes the channels and now accusing them... this is a case of a psycho and loser who was unable to accept his failiure...
@ Haider Muhammad K: The news is right man.. schoolmate here means when they both were in same school doing metric.. But then later the girl was in girls college.. Check the difference between school and college.. Anyhow the boy did not love the girl if he would then he wouldn't have killed her and harm her... The boy was surely a psycho and loser... Kinnaird College administration should take some measure if Government is not.. They should keep A guard themselves for the Security of their students not just sit inside the college. they are also responsible for this act in a way...
y r v so unsave in our own country.shud v think before sendin our kids out ,even for schools n colleges.n look at some of us acceptin dis sort of madness by sayin "evry thing s fair in love n war".such things happen bcoze v dont mind any thing bad happening as long as ur own self s safe.wake up youth.
@Adil8: i really like ur comment the person like u may come with revolution in youth try to think on it tooo....
Khan,
Whats with co-education? It's a rare case brother.
Dont know what the problem people has, they dont see themselves and start giving their silly opinions. Whatever could b the reason, people r not supposed to use unethical words.
The parents should have kept a keen eye on her when they knew a guy was after her...it's the parent's fault and rightly so they should suffer for it.
Should have bought your daughter a gun rather than a cellphone !
The two were class fellows in school........... anything to say about co-education.
Strange World ... I'm Speechless ...
extremely sad, we as a nation are failing badly in being tolerant. day by day our paitence and tolerence is gettting less. This gruesome inicident is an instance, we refuse to accept things that are different from what we want believe yet somehow we have this righteous belief that i am right and have the right to enfore it be it even through force. May the familes get the sabr.
I blame Bollywood and the culture of chronic self-pity over rejection by a girl you barely even know.
I can recall a news item in Tribune few months back related to the complains from parents and students about the guys standing at the bridge for teasing girls and passing unfriendly remarks. That news also reported that Police had refused to depute a person on the bridge as they do not have sufficient staff.
Now who is responsible for this incident and wasn't this incident avoidable if someone had taken the action earlier ?
Do we live in a hopeless country?
@Muddaser: Infact this is true.Noboddy knows the real story.so please stop aurguing,stop blaming and just pray for them and thier family members.Thank you
@ET: "Murder Mystery: killer commits suicide after shooting, dead kinnaird student"
"Youth commits suicide after killing schoolmate" I am pretty sure Kinnaird college is an all girls institute... and I am pretty sure the killer was a guy.
I think you should think about hiring someone new to write the headlines :/
I feel for the poor parents of the girl and the boy as well and very strongly feel that every parent should keep a strict eye on the activities of their children for their benefit especially during teen age period. Teenagers don't know when flirting changes into so called love and then they cant control the emotions.
wow new pressure tactics I love the Girl oops she does'nt love me no problem lets force her into marriage oops dat aint working either so wat kill the girl and there we go.now the world would believe in the power of pakistani youth. Now girls should say yes to any loser roaming around feaing death at a pedestrian bridge instead of thinking wisely for her future
ET can you please investigate how this youth came to have a firearm?? Was it licensed? Who in the Government permitted the issuance of the license?? A DC of the District issues it after receiving a police report on the licensee. Did the youth steal it from someone?? Did that someone report his missing firearm to the police?? Or was this an illegal firearm?? The Killer's family and friends should be investigated if they knew that a crime was going to be committed and failed to inform the police so it could be stopped. Very sad indeed.
if anyone is to be blamed for such a sad incident its the electronic media which puts these weirdest ideas into the heads of some stupid people who lack better judgement !!! Killing ur love and suicide has been glamorized to an extent that people think its a way to prove their love !!!
wrong is wrong and we should say it wrong. The guyz saying everything is fair in love and war how about your own sister shoot like that by her lover? please save our society from mobile, BF/GF culture
For 18 Years Samar's Mum Prayed and Cared for Her Daughter But a Psycho Took Away All of Her Happiness in a Second!!
What's More Tragic is the Insensitivity of Some of the Comments Showing That the Same Psycho Killer Still Lives Inside Some of Us!!
Nothing could be more sadder than this. Two lives both who had yet to make careers and find happiness have been cut down by a horrible crime. Two families and the nation mourns at what we have become?? Why are firearms so easily available, someone should answer for this??? You can't take this to the United Nations to find an answer. Last time we did and spent $45million on a UN Report on which nothing happened; its the 4th Anniversary of BB's death. NO ANSWERS.
noboday know's the real story , may God forgive them
no i dont agree that every thing is fair in love and war as said by many people who have commented on this news because we are MUSLIMS and our religion doesnot allow suicide its a great sin..he murdered her and then commited suicide means double sin he has to answer for murder as well as for suicide on doomsday. may ALLAH show us the right path n guide us all amin
@Umair,
Looks like you just learnt the phrase "Everything is fair in love and war"
Get your brain checked and stop regurgitating your new found angrezi. (Now look up "regurgitating")
A young woman was killed for no fault of hers.
There is nothing - nothing whatsoever - fair here.
Gun (arms) control anyone ?
God, this is the height of something, I just read a comment on the youtube a douchebag saying that he salutes that guy, but salute for what !! This is really sick, what gives right to that stupid boy to Kill that girl and then himself, and who so ever is coming up with this stupid comments like everything is fair in love n war ,
Mr Umair Grow up and read what BALMA has said, There are so many better things to do at that age rather than acting like stupid indian filmi romantic lovers. Sigh, Its really sad,
Allah Unko aur unke gunaah maaf farmaaaye, aur Unke parents Ko sabr kerne ki toufeeq de!
and Please dunt come up with stupid trashy opinions
@Haider Muhammad K.: hello... 'Shooting dead' is an expression...remember English grammar?
@ Everything is fair in love and war
Suicide is HARAM in Islam and the above quotation is not an Islamic quoting so keep it in mind if you are a Muslim.
this is not 'LOVE' but 'LUST'...........so sad....May Allah rest her soul in peace....
Every thing is fair in love and war.....God bless there souls....
C'mon, now donot say "ill-fated" girl. Just pray for their forgiveness. It might be the girl was innocent.
It is really sad ..... Nobody should be so cruel ....
@Man: I don't think it takes much to see that the guy was some obsessed stalker who was refused and wanted to hurt the object of his attention. Then he turned the gun on himself. This type of thing goes on all over the world with jilted lovers and unrequited love.
The guy who shot the girl wanted to marry her, but his request was turned down by the parents of the girl.
He therefore no only shot the girl but also shot himself and died.
Every thing is possible in war and love.
in our so called islamic society as shown on tv ....the dead bodies were not covered and the crowd around was busy in making videos on mobile......atleast the girls dead body was supposed to be covered....this is where media fails to reflect the code of ethic required.
Must have been another love affair gone haywire...
"after shooting dead Kinnaird student" What was she dead before he shot her?
That's the new Pakistani culture. A mix of Indian films and TV.
The ill-fated girl belonged to Faisalabad and was living in Lahore at her aunty’s residence
Kinnaird College Principal, Dr.Rukhsana David announced:
“The college will remain closed on October 18 due to this sad incident”
@ ET, It took you guys almost 6 hours to file this report, while the main roads of Lahore remained clogged? Was this not important enough, news?