• “Woman had serious head injury and she was also pregnant,” says physician.
• Woman was pressured by her husband to present delivery to a son, sources say. 
  
• CCPO Abbas Ahsan says that the police have taken discover of the matter and an investigation is underway.
  

PESHAWAR: A woman was severely injured after she hammered a nail into her head following the instructions of a fake aamil in order that she might give delivery to a boy, Geo Information reported on Tuesday.

The injured woman was rushed to the Girl Studying Hospital the place she underwent surgical procedure to take away the nail from her cranium.

In accordance with the assertion issued by the woman, the fake aamil requested her to hammer the nail into her cranium as she wished to have a son.

Dr Haider Suleman, the neurosurgeon treating her, instructed Geo Information that the woman had a severe head damage, including that she was additionally pregnant and in loads of ache. 

In accordance with the report, the woman was pressurised by her husband to present delivery to a boy. The woman had three daughters and her husband threatened to divorce her and remarry if she failed to present delivery to a boy.

The report additional added that the woman underwent an ultrasound which revealed that she was about to present delivery to a daughter once more, after which she determined to go to the fake aamil because the final choice. 

The Capital Metropolis Police Peshawar (CCPO) Abbas Ahsan mentioned that the police have taken discover of the matter and an investigation is underway.

He mentioned that the police try to hint the woman and sufferer help officers have been directed to satisfy the sufferer to counsel her and get particulars of the incident, including that “a legal action will be taken against her husband and the culprits involved.”

In accordance with Psychologist Dr Uzma Ali, lack of training is the principle cause behind these points, including that fraudulent friends and aamils ought to be arrested for taking benefit of helpless individuals.  

Dr Uzma additional mentioned that society ought to be made conscious of gender-based points and added that stress performs an essential half in making these sorts of selections which incorporates societal norms and household’s occasion of giving delivery to a boy so he might deliver house revenue when he grows up. 

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