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Article: 18 Women announce to Commit Suicide Jointly on Sunday At Mazar Quid-e-Azam, letter sent to Ansar Burney.
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- PPI - Pakistan Press International
- Article date:
- March 24, 2004
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KARACHI, March 24 (PPI): Ansar Burney advocate, chairman Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International, has claimed to have received a letter from the eighteen poor women announcing to commit joint suicide by setting themselves on fire on Sunday, 28th March 2004 at the mausoleum of Qaid-e-Azam, due to poverty, injustices, unemployment, corruption and prejudiced behavior of the society and government towards poor people. According to a press release mailed to the press on Wednesday, Mr. Burney said the women have also set 4.00 p.m. as time for committing the suicide. The release contains names of the women however their addresses are not mentioned in it. Mst. Zarina ...