ISLAMABAD: A senior superintendent of police (SSP) Asher Hameed found dead in his room last week had died of heart disease, a forensic report of his death confirmed on Tuesday.
He was serving as assistant inspector general (AIG) operations in Islamabad police was found dead in his room inside the police headquarters on July 22. The AIG was found lying face down on the floor and it appeared that he had heavily bled from mouth prior to death.
“Myocardial sections reveal multiple areas of fibrosis suggesting active ischemic heart disease,” a forensic analysis report by Punjab Forensic Science Agency said. It added that no drug, poison or volatile [substance] was found in his liver.
According to the police officials, Hameed had a family history of heart disease and his father and younger brother had both died of heart failure. Officials had earlier said that the initial examination of the body and the room found no evidence to suggest that the death was unnatural.
A post-mortem was also performed at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) to ascertain the cause of death the same day. Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University Vice-Chancellor Dr Javed Akram had told the reporters that there was no [torture] mark on the body externally either.
He was transferred to Balochistan police by the Establishment Division few weeks prior to his demise but had not moved there and was trying to get his transfer cancelled or be transferred to Punjab instead.
Earlier on May 31, SSP of district Jaffarabad Jahanzaib Khan Kakar was found dead in his office with blood-stained uniform and a bullet hole in his temple. The unresolved case became more complex after the forensic experts established murder as the cause of death. The government later said it was convinced that the officer took his own life.
