Unexplained death: Injured PPP activist dies
Sheikh Mansoor Ahmed died at the Pims due to hypertension and cranial bleeding.
Workers prepare campaign flags for Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) ahead of the forthcoming general election in Karachi on April 16, 2013. PHOTO: AFP
ISLAMABAD:
Some 12 hours after being shifted to the hospital in an injured state, a senior political activist passed away in the federal capital on Thursday.
Sheikh Mansoor Ahmed, a Pakistan Peoples Party worker, died at the Pims due to hypertension and cranial bleeding, according to hospital officials.
Kohsar police related that Ahmed was brought to the hospital from his house in Sector F-7/1 on Wednesday by his “own people”. A medico-legal officer said Ahmed underwent an operation overnight, but he died on Thursday.
Ahmed had two obvious marks or wounds on the eye and the arm.
A police officer said it would be an exaggeration to suggest that Ahmed was tortured. However, the officer said the police are not ruling out the possibility.
An FIR had not been registered till the filing of this report. The police have informed that Ahmed’s relatives told authorities that an official complaint will be filed after Ahmed’s funeral.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 31st, 2014.
Some 12 hours after being shifted to the hospital in an injured state, a senior political activist passed away in the federal capital on Thursday.
Sheikh Mansoor Ahmed, a Pakistan Peoples Party worker, died at the Pims due to hypertension and cranial bleeding, according to hospital officials.
Kohsar police related that Ahmed was brought to the hospital from his house in Sector F-7/1 on Wednesday by his “own people”. A medico-legal officer said Ahmed underwent an operation overnight, but he died on Thursday.
Ahmed had two obvious marks or wounds on the eye and the arm.
A police officer said it would be an exaggeration to suggest that Ahmed was tortured. However, the officer said the police are not ruling out the possibility.
An FIR had not been registered till the filing of this report. The police have informed that Ahmed’s relatives told authorities that an official complaint will be filed after Ahmed’s funeral.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 31st, 2014.