Extreme step: Man commits suicide

GUJAR KHAN: A 40-year-old man committed suicide in Gujar Khan on Wednesday. Police sources said that Naheed Akhtar hung himself with the ceiling fan of his room when his wife and their seven children were not in the house. Akhtar was suffering from a psychological disorder for the last four years, family sources said. The body was taken to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital and later handed over to his family, said a police official.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 10^th, 2012.