Pakistani woman commits suicide after US shooting

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2011/February/international_February206.xml§ion=international

(Ap)

6 February 2011,

LAHORE, Pakistan — The wife of a Pakistani man shot and killed by a US official committed suicide by eating rat poison Sunday, explaining before she died that she was driven to act by fears the American would be freed without trial, a doctor said.

The US has demanded Pakistani authorities release the American, saying he shot and killed two armed men in self-defence when they attempted to rob him as he drove his car in the eastern city of Lahore. He was arrested on Jan. 27, and the US has said he has diplomatic immunity and is being illegally detained.

The shootings have stoked anti-American sentiment in Pakistan, feelings that could be further inflamed by Shumaila Kanwal’s suicide. She died several hours after being rushed to a hospital, said Ali Naqi, the doctor in Faisalabad city who treated her.

‘I do not expect any justice from this government,’ said Kanwal in a statement recorded by the doctor before she died. ‘That is why I want to kill myself.’