Domestic disagreement: LG candidate commits suicide

ABBOTABAD: A candidate for the local government (LG) polls allegedly committed suicide over a minor domestic disagreement in Salhad village, said the police on Tuesday. Police quoted a family member as saying that Zahid Khan, 31, had an argument with his wife on Monday evening over which he shot himself with a 30-bore pistol. He was taken to Ayub Medical Complex where he succumbed in the early hours of Tuesday. Police has registered a case and started an investigation. According to police and family members, Zahid was a candidate for the tehsil council from his native union council, Salhad, and had recently got back home after addressing different public meetings in the union council.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 29^th, 2015.