Pakistan

Students carry out 'suicide pact' during assembly in Karachi

Handwriting in suicide notes similar to each other; writer claims parents' resistance to marriage led to pact

Web Desk September 01, 2015

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KARACHI: A schoolboy shot dead his female classmate early Tuesday morning before turning the pistol on himself in a private school in Karachi, Express News reported.

According to reports, a 16-year-old boy opened fire on his classmate during the assembly session at a private school in Karachi’s Patel Para area, resulting in her immediate death. Soon after killing his classmate, the boy committed suicide with the same pistol he used to kill her.

Two 'suicide' letters were later found in the assembly grounds. The letters, addressed to the their respective parents, stated that the two teenagers were committing suicide due to their parents' resistance against their intentions to get married. In the chilling letter, the writers also requested that their bodies be laid to rest next to each other.

It could not be independently verified by The Express Tribune whether the letters were written separately by the girl and boy, considering the handwriting in both letters seems identical.

Both died on the spot and their bodies were shifted to a nearby hospital for legal formalities, after which they were handed over to their respective families, sources said.

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“Police have recovered a 9mm pistol and two casings of its bullets from the crime scene,” Superintendent of Police (SP) Jamshed Town Police Station Akhtar Farooq said.

A copy of the letters can be viewed here:

COMMENTS (92)

hogan scarpe 2016 | 8 years ago | Reply Oh My God! Thank you so much for this information… I was going in to my computer and to no avail didnt see the second hard drive. So, I would re-check the SATA cables and moving it to other SATA connections and still no second Hard Drive. I forgot about formatting it.

Unbelievable | 9 years ago | Reply You don't need to be a forensic expert to see the letters were written by the same person! 'So-side'? 'shirf'? The uncannily similar hand-writing?

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Haider Iqbal | 9 years ago | Reply @Momal Tahir: Please refrain from publicizing your opinions when the sentimentality of two families who lost their children are involved. @Tribune was it absolutely necessary to post the suicide note? For shame.

ahmad | 9 years ago | Reply In this case, all of us assume that kids parents do not counsel their kids and do not spend time with their children. Most of us framing this assumption might be derived from our normal routine life. So, the lesson learnt from this incidents and with most of our comments is that there is a time to adjust our routine life, give time to the family and discuss with them the family issues, issues of community and the developments all over the globe, give space to others for their opinions and thoughts, and give respect to elders and appreciate their experience. if we won't spare time for family, we might have more incidents like this.

Aloneprince | 9 years ago | Reply very sad

Sajjad | 9 years ago | Reply In my views this incident was happened due to Co-education because Islam strictly refuses the co-education when we deny the Islam education then we faces such types of incidents. Second parents should be monitored their children and should educate them about Islam. Because children did not know that what is suicide actually. So I request all the parents be compare between the own time period and present.

Mujtaba Ali Changezi | 9 years ago | Reply It was really a sad act! I'm gonna blame the parents because they just wanted to get high score in School but they didn't focused on their real life out of school. And from now, every School have to keep a Psychology Teacher because it helps the teen to fight with illiteracy.

Capt. Naeem Razzak | 9 years ago | Reply Please refrain from pointing fingers, nobody is to blame here except the unlimited free minutes on the mobile. We may have to pay a heavy price for the 'Progress' but nobody can stop it. This is an unfortunate case of misplaced emotions gone wild. The phenomenon has been happening since time immemorial when the phone was not even invented...remember Romeo & Juliet etc. The foremost point to ascertain here is, as to, who brought the gun to the scene. If it was the girl and she died first, then there is no doubt that they were both in this madness together and hence no suspicion of any blackmail. As for the boy he was already set to die for he had posted this on the Internet a day before. Wether one person wrote the suicide notes or each wrote his own becomes immaterial as far as the case is concerned. We have heard lovers jumping together hand-in-hand to face sure death, but imagine the amount of faith and trust this girl must have devloped in the boy (courtesy mobile phone) to allow herself to go first, without any apprehension that he may not follow suit.

Saqib Ahmed | 9 years ago | Reply very bad

Ali | 9 years ago | Reply This is all because of co-education.

Roshan | 9 years ago | Reply Whatever We Say , Parents are at fault , they need to take issues seriously otherwise the damage is quite clear . These kids werent mature enough to understand the worth of life , so it is the duty of parents to handle and that also with care .

Nadia | 9 years ago | Reply People blaming indian content and asking for bans have not recently seen pakistani dramas I believe. Easy to point fingers at India for everything.

shakeel | 9 years ago | Reply thats not right way, totaly fault of our education system.

Imran | 9 years ago | Reply Wake up pakistani parents

zybic | 9 years ago | Reply This is totally in murder case like in movies. I won't believe this its sure the action from girls side... a typica way to control love in public or old generation parents . Shame on you to kill your kids.

Nadia | 9 years ago | Reply Its very sad.. really... Its not shameful... it's sad full...

nig | 9 years ago | Reply It is Not the time to blame parents, teachers, both kids or indian soaps n movies ..It is the high time to think about why are our precious youth wasting themselves? We all being parents, teachers, intellectuals know the answer..we donot follow our golden Islamic teachings..just have forgotten them....as second janam What is this...now we all are just status conscious..we don't want to pay attention to our children busy in all halla gulla activities other than to train our kids to offer namaz in time ...we have given them mobile , i-pad...just think about it n simply pray that never ever such painful incident be happened Ameen

Ghulaam | 9 years ago | Reply And this is what Bollywood/Hollywood (mostly Bollywood) does to the minds of innocent, immature youngsters.

Bewildered | 9 years ago | Reply My two cents in addition to what the others have already pointed out. 1- The letters were written well in advance of the time of the suicide. 2- No prominent suicidal tendencies can be seen from the handwriting of letters.

Atif Majid | 9 years ago | Reply @haroon nasir: Dont blame other societies for the evil within your own societies.

Falah | 9 years ago | Reply This us one of the biggest tragedies of this time. Its us not just the sad demise if two ppl but the state of mind of our children. We are accusing them of love and the idea of getting married and passing your life with your loved one. Is this is a sin, or what the parents teachers and our society's mind set has done to them is a sin ? In both the suicide notes it is clearly written that the parents want their child to maary some one else and the life partner child has chose is not acceptabe to both the parties. Why??? Has any of the parents discuss this issue with their child or with the other family?? Did they counsel their child and try to listen to them what they wanted? Ofcourse there was a peaceful way out. This issue could have been settled peacefully. They wanted their child to get married to the person of their(parents) choice, why?? Why not with the one they love? They should have talked to them with wisdom respect love and sincerity that ok you love this person u can narry him/her when u grow up and if their were any issues regarding the other party then should have talked to e/o and solve the issue. This is a total failure of parents in their role of upbringing their children, sad but true they left no option for them except this sad and tragic death. This shouldnot have been the outcone of an innocent love story by all means. Always guide your children on all issues, make them mentaly strong, and teach them positive attitude, respect them and their emotions. And by your behaviour and way teach them to respect you. As actions speak louder than words.

Atif Majid | 9 years ago | Reply WOW - Unbelievable. I can understand emotion, love, desire and passion to be with someone. But there is no justification for taking life. This is a private school so I am assuming the family are from an affluent background. I am sorry to say but the family must take some responsibility for this. I have been to Karachi and have seen with my own eyes how open and modern the society has become. As much as I am shocked, it does not surprise me. Once parents let their children out of sight, they loose control. May Allah protect Pakistan

Hashim | 9 years ago | Reply I find it extremely sad that people are commenting and debating whether it is the parents' fault or the children. It is in fact our fault. Our society is tainted. The fact that young teenagers understand the divides and segregations we have in our society due to sects, religions, castes etc is something to really ponder over. But no, we like to point fingers at others rather than changing the problem, which is in our ways of thinking. Sad Sad SAD indeed.

Wardah Khan | 9 years ago | Reply This is a complete representation of what indian soap operas and movies are doing to our youth. No one knows the real story but clearly the cause of this case is lust not love. How can one love another when they dont even love their parents enough to consider how they would react or feel? No one should mourn their deaths, it would simply mean supporting these so-called romeos and juliets. Believe me, Im a teenager and I strongly condemn these cowardly and foolish acts.

Asad | 9 years ago | Reply Now this is serious crap. Same handwriting and same way of writing, Its clearly not a suicide.

Ashar Zubairi | 9 years ago | Reply This is a very scary event that tells us the direction of our youth, but parents are also to blame mostly. I think that parents have to devote time to their children. Unlike the old days, parent child relationship should be very friendly. Moreover, parents need to devote time to tell their children about what is right and wrong socially and religiously. For this purpose parents first also need to learn properly about the religion!! Allah un k ghar walo ko sabar ata farmaye

Shehryaar Ali | 9 years ago | Reply @Trucking_Around: A boy and girl committed a suicide and you are here to correct the spells. Shame on You!!!

ahmed | 9 years ago | Reply Before we say anything upon this, we must understand what else possibly could have happened rather than saying 'parents shouldn't mourn their demise'. Possibility 1: Someone had to kill either a boy or the girl for any reason such as family revenge or like wise and to make a mystery wrote suicide letter on behalf of both knowing that the hand writings are very similar. In the suicide letter the way the addressed their parents is pretty much same used the same words 'papa ap muj se love krte ho', I mean a daughter in our society would never address his father in this fashion. It's evident both of the suicide letters were written by the same person Possibility 2: there may be two boys to like a girl. And the girl must have been interested in one of them and they get along, due to jealousy the other boy may have killed both of them with a psychological verdict' the girl ditched me, the boy took away my girl' so they both shall die I can't see them together. Possibility 3: the girl may be being black mailed by the boy aur mentally tortured for any of her sex tapes or the boy knows a secret about her, in order to preserve her dignity in our society and she may have killed the boy first and suicide then. No one, was in the classroom as pupils were gathered in the assembly area. The case is far complicated with a number of possible combinations Ladies n gentle be critical rather than blindly believing what media says, their are a number of possibilities, no one have seen them suicide the boy kills first our the girl kills first or someone else may have killed them for some reason possibly another student / school staff

Defence Group | 9 years ago | Reply Points for Police to solve case Suicide or murder? Love one sided or both? Reason of early marriage? Same handwriting? Check name of boy on both letters. On boy letter in name of boy it was written bold. It was written first f then made it n. Boy injured from back side in pictures. Girl from front but not in centr. Same page of copy. We think every thing will be searched from letters. Check the handwriting of both from their copies. How can the boy shot himself from back side after killing girl acording to report? Check the ownership of pistol. Check facebook id,s of both,check their last updates of f.b n where they were at that time? Check the homework of both of previous day.if they done then their is a possibility of 3rd person. In our own investigation girl did or a 3rd person done this. From Defence Group.

Muhammad Adeel | 9 years ago | Reply Both letters are written by one person either boy or either girl.

Zuhair | 9 years ago | Reply fault? what fault? It was an act of an overly passionate boy who thought what he watches in movie is all that it is out there.

naeem khan | 9 years ago | Reply we must think what we are as a society,we need to educate our children in the light of Islam.

naeem khan | 9 years ago | Reply it is due to the negligence of parents and we must think where our society going

dr tayyaba | 9 years ago | Reply sorry for this type of incideint but we should take care of our children mental health ,both boy and girl are mentally sick ,we should teach our children about our Islamic values and our moral values ,parents, teachers ,society , our media are all responsible for this type of incideint.

Sid | 9 years ago | Reply @nishit exactly wat u said is true...that is the plan of India actually...

Qissma Butt | 9 years ago | Reply Heer and Ranjha, Sassi Punnu and Sohni Mahiwal, Romeo and Juliet, all were written because the authors knew well the angst of teenage love. Unbelievable that some of you would find, for a tragedy here in Karachi, to somehow blame it on India. There's a reason why Pakistan is probably the only country regressing from her conception. Her citizens simply refuse to take responsibility for anything that happens in their home and simply know how to blame "others" for everything that ails them, which ironically they themselves have been creating. Make it an open society where boys and girls can mingle and can marry a person of their own choosing. Guide them well and then let them be. It's their life.

sohail ahmad | 9 years ago | Reply Very said news - but friends this is not the occasion to comment on the standard of writing of the young one who took own and girls life - this is time to think about support a teenage needed when he is around 16. I have no idea how people can make joke of this incident!

Hassan | 9 years ago | Reply @Momal Tahir: Momal Tahir bajee, your comment is wrong on so many levels.

Humaira | 9 years ago | Reply Very sad news. In western culture if they send their kids in coeducation they give freedom their kids to decide about their lives. In our culture we copy western culture but not completely. We are half Muslims and half "gore" . This is totally parants faults. May ALLAH paak forgive them. Plz plz plz all parants no indian movies or dramas.

Faisal Khurshied | 9 years ago | Reply Its one side love issue. Only from boy side. Letters are written with same handwriting. There is most probable that girl didn't response him for his love and in revenge, the boy took such action.

Wajeeha Hasan | 9 years ago | Reply These days parents need to watch what has been watched on televisions. Kids need to be monitored properly esp. while watching television or browsing internet. I do agree with many around, Indian content needs to be banned.

ivehadit | 9 years ago | Reply The same person wrote both notes and the letter is likely written by the boy wielding the gun. It looks like a murder suicide and should be treated as such. Parents have to be held responsible for the actions of their underage children. What is this "getting married at 16" business anyway?

Its simple | 9 years ago | Reply How on earth does a teenager end up with a firearm? Take the boys parents to task, how on earth could they let him get access to one !!!

Raj - USA | 9 years ago | Reply @awais: "The second saddest thing is writing Urdu in English. That also shows the standard of the school." Your's is the best comment I like.

Jaafer Javaid | 9 years ago | Reply Thanks to our media for promotiing the indiqn content which lead to this. "Is janam mein sath nahi hongay", but you got a chilling story and thats all you care about. Ban Indian contant in Pakistan and save our coming generation. Please.

Sana Adnan | 9 years ago | Reply Too much Bollywood in one news! Also, the fact that the kids were 10 graders, aged 15-16 years and still spelt "suicide" as "so-side" (ref: the suicide note), raises serious questions on our academic standards.

Naren | 9 years ago | Reply Schools should start giving a proper counselling to their students.

A somber day | 9 years ago | Reply May Allah give their parents the strength in these extenuating times. P.S. The comments on this story are absolutely disgusting. No regard for the kids, or their parents. Such a shame.

Muhammad Saad | 9 years ago | Reply @Momal Tahir: Parents cannot stop being PARENTS.

Pakhtun | 9 years ago | Reply @M. Ahmed Khalid: My dear, why dont you become a detective? You have resolved the case in seconds

Rehan | 9 years ago | Reply Unfortunate incident, there need to be a volunteer hotline for such helpless teens who need help in things they can't handle themselves. And all of the above suggesting this and that, including me, should take some time out to volunteer answering calls on that hotline. Step forward to help teens, they need us.

indian | 9 years ago | Reply @haroon nasir: yeah blame indian movies for all nonsense.

What's This? | 9 years ago | Reply That's totally an act of madness caused due to negligence of parents which in turn due to the negligence of state. Indeed again the Indian and also English Movies,Hindi channels and other such type of things.That's incident depicts that we are fragmented people to a great extent so, we don't know how to handle even basic matters of life.

awais | 9 years ago | Reply The second saddest thing is writing Urdu in English. That also shows the standard of the school.

bash gul | 9 years ago | Reply It shows the standard of the school teachers and its administration. All they know is take a salary.Do they not know what goes on in the school? If the reason for suicide was marriage, then the parents should have informed the school to keep any eye on them, and give them some counselling. The main question is how did this 16 year old get a 9mm gun?

I am a Khan | 9 years ago | Reply very sad news. may Allah forgive the kids and accept them in Jannah. Parents should understand the emotions of their kids. A friendly approach to discourage something is better than a harsh approach.

I am a Khan | 9 years ago | Reply Very Sad to read this news. Parents should be careful when interacting with kids and should consider their kids emotions also. A friendly approach to discourage something usually works rather than a harsh approach. May Allah forgive the Kids and accept them in Jannah. Aameen.

sadaf | 9 years ago | Reply not in this case only I request all the parents to give more time and attention to their kids, it is a common observation mothers are busy either in their household chores or watching tv....where are the kids. we all should change our priorities

Hell's Cook | 9 years ago | Reply Where did he get the gun?? I understand parenting is very difficult these days but still.....Sad sad incident.

Muhammad Saad Khan | 9 years ago | Reply If parents talk to their children, engage them frequently...these things will never happen. When I was a teenager, I always wanted that someone listen to my opinion before imposing anything on me that I don't understand. Amma Abbu always said that this is the most vulnerable age in which kids got distracted. And in the time when our minds are manipulated by the media and wrong usage of internet, its most important for the parents to talk to their children and listen what opinions they are building up in their minds. This is the only way to rectify a problem. Never scold, or beat those innocent souls, they just need to be heard. Just ask them "why they did something wrong". Correct them in a friendly manner. Give examples, tell stories. Inspire them...Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Nadeem | 9 years ago | Reply This is our new generation, a product of Cambridge education system who can't even a letter in Urdu. During colonial era " Gora " educational system produced a generation of Yes Men and army of clerks who could perform official duty in English. Now the same Gora is producing a new generation of glorified Yes Men , a form of new neocolonialism. I have yet to meet a graduate of this Cambridge educational system who can speak flawless Urdu or is able to write half page in standard Urdu. Finally , I agree the icing of the cake is impact of Indian movies/ and TV dramas. And who is responsible for all this ? Answer: the parents.

Ali | 9 years ago | Reply @haroon nasir: Pakistani TV dramas are also on same path.

saeed | 9 years ago | Reply Save your kids and avoid indian movies and songs. Young mind gets impressed very easily. Time for the government to think about introducing a course of 'love and respect' in high school curriculum.

yR | 9 years ago | Reply both letters are almost same, handwriting is identical and even most of the words used are also same. it looks like that the boy have done all this, but whatever the case is, I would say its the media who taught them this. I don't know what else should I say...

Zohaib Ahmed | 9 years ago | Reply @Momal Tahir: How cold-hearted can you be?

nishit | 9 years ago | Reply @Sara: Wow Sara blame everything on India... Yes We tell people to Suicide So we Dont have to kill them on Borders..

M | 9 years ago | Reply For the longest time I kept wondering why they kept mentioning the seaside in these letters... Anyhow, sad.

shocked | 9 years ago | Reply This is why elders say there should be a limited time for children to watch TV, especially when there's cable TV in the house.

Fawad | 9 years ago | Reply To all those who say that their deaths shouldn't be mourned ought to be ashamed of themselves. They both were in their teens, they were hardly mature enough to distinguish between right and wrong. If anything we should try and learn as much as we can from this incident. There are a number of teens out there and the authorities have to make sure that such a vile act is never committed again.

chaudhary.Rafiq | 9 years ago | Reply Very very shameful and immature act of the youth.

Umar | 9 years ago | Reply This was a foolish move by two emotional and immature kids. It's nobody's fault.

Huma | 9 years ago | Reply The police should investigate how a 16 year old boy got hold of a gun and who taught him to use it also the handwriting and the word "so side" is same in both the letters so maybe the boy committed suicide and murdered the girl well or they both committed suicide well we will never know what actually the story was... may Allah forgive them as suicide is a sin

Sonia K | 9 years ago | Reply Awesome.... ban movies.... ban this .... ban that.... when will people learn to DEAL with issues in this country! Even if this love was one-sided, unrequited, immature or blossoming who was supposed to GUIDE it.... the parents or the teachers to be exact.... sorry to say but each one of us has felt some sort of emotion when growing up and yes watching those crappy movies did affect us too.... but there was a GUIDE always.... think hard and you will realize who it was. These kids were simply unfortunate to not have some one to tell them what to do in such a situation.... they were teenagers who ran amok with their emotions.... the responsibility lies with the elders who should LEARN NOT TO SHUN EMOTIONS. Y ARE WE SO SCARED OF THEM?

Troubled | 9 years ago | Reply @Momal Tahir: You are obviously detached from any human emotions.

US | 9 years ago | Reply I guess I had read the word "janam" .... if I had read it correct... I feel pity for the families that bcuz of unethical soaps... their kids had taken such a huge step. Both letters have approx same wordings. So probably they are written by only one of the two.

hari | 9 years ago | Reply Dear kids, my head is reeling, what have you done! What a waste of s life time, parents and teachers should consider themselves responsible. You will take birth again to live the experience you wanted to avoid again and again till you learn from it. All the best.

Nafisa | 9 years ago | Reply My mother used to say 'Khilaa sonay kaa niwala aur dekho sheer kee nigah say' I used to hate this proverb during my teenage but applying the same on my teenagers. Becoming a parent is a great experience which brings a lot of responsibilities and duties.It changes our priorities altogether.As a parent, we should spend quality time with children and should try to keep an eye on their all activities.

Sara | 9 years ago | Reply Impact of indian movies and dramas on our young generation

Trucking_Around | 9 years ago | Reply They (assuming that the letters were written by two different people) can't even spell suicide, yet this murder and a "so-side" [sic] was the last option for these love-birds? What were they expecting, a second "janam". Another mind-boggling thing is the 9mm pistol in the presence of a 16-year-old, that too in school. Where is the National Action Plan and the walk-through gates/scanners at the campus? Makes me sick!

Mohammad | 9 years ago | Reply @Momal Tahir: Is it really shameful that it shouldn't be mourned? Its the parents fault for not allowing the children what they wanted.

Anam | 9 years ago | Reply Dramatic kids

Muhid | 9 years ago | Reply bad job censoring the name in the first letter, can be seen in the last para in the handwritten note. ET if you're going to protect someone's privacy, you might want to do it properly.

abc | 9 years ago | Reply Very sad incident and our schools should also take care of students mental health.

haroon nasir | 9 years ago | Reply Its extremely thoughtful. Indian movies are the root cause of this evil penetrating in our society. They are spoiling our youth as indian movies and dramas are being watched in every household. In every indian movie & drama the basic learning is immature love between couples as if this is the fundamental of universe. They should immediately be banned.

Shakil Ahmed Khan | 9 years ago | Reply Parents should know and should be educated to deal with teenage kids. Their lack of understanding and dealing with them correctly ended up death of two youths. Not relevant but Very strange to see suicide note written in roman Urdu, meaning they were not able to write correctly in Urdu or the English! May be this is the confusion they came across and were unable to get help to deal with western and eastern cultures. Schools and parents need to work harder to understand and guide youth correctly instead of just focusing on their studies.

Aneela | 9 years ago | Reply Very bad act indeed

Ali | 9 years ago | Reply its the same handwriting. "so-side" tells it all

M. Ahmed Khalid | 9 years ago | Reply Both the letters are written by the same person and most probably by boy. And its also possible that only boy loved the girl and there was no such feeling from girls side so he wrote both the letters and committed suicide after killing the girl, just to show the world that they were together.

Sabiha Alwy | 9 years ago | Reply This is very sad, an unnecessary loss of two young lives. If only their parents or teachers or a school psychologist was available to listen to them and to help them.

Wasif | 9 years ago | Reply What is the link of last paragraph with the actual news?

Zohaib Ahmed | 9 years ago | Reply What's the point of the last para? Totally irrelevant.

Momal Tahir | 9 years ago | Reply Parents shouldn't mourn this death, it's shameful & immature act.

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