Suicide suspected: Pakistan’s fastest female athlete dies
Athlete Mubeen Akhtar, the fastest woman in the country, passed away on Thursday, two days after swallowing a large number of pills.
The 21-year-old resident of Mughalpura was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday in critical condition and had her stomach pumped, said sources in the hospital. She was kept on a ventilator in the intensive care unit for two days. Family members refused to comment on the cause of her death. Her funeral prayers were offered in Mughalpura on Thursday Akhtar won three gold medals at the 44th National Athletics Championship earlier this year, including in the individual 100-metre and 200-metre races for women.
Published In The Express Tribune, June 15th, 2012.
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Did her family has anything to do with her suicide? Why are they keeping quite?All parents of successful and rising-start-like children must know such youths are different from others the way they think, decide and act. They must be handled differently, for example they need to be helped, encouraged & supported all the time for the growth of their talent and their success.
These rising stars are mentally strong but only in their talent and should not be forced to do anything that compromise their goals. Instead Parents of such talented individuals must compromise & avoid forcing family ambitions, traditional rules and customs on such precious and delicate persons.There is no shortage of stories of sad ending of such talented individuals only because of poor handling by the very people they relied on.
she had a wild card entry for London Olympics it is really a sad news for everyone