A young man played a prank which got nearly the whole nation or at least the city of Karachi involved and in an atmosphere of despondency born out of unemployment and rising prices added to the doomsday atmosphere, which is fueled every day by similar news.

This young man, Tahir Mehmood, has a very strange story to tell. According to him, He was depressed due to financial problems and decided to end his life.

As he is a cab driver he drove to the beach at Clifton in the early hours of morning and after parking went towards the sea with the intention of jumping in but suddenly changed his mind and started going back to his car when out of nowhere 4 people appeared who doused him with a mysterious spray which made him lose consciousness and when he regained consciousness he was in Nazimabad.

He somehow managed to reach home, from where his wife and brother took him to a hospital.

I know this is quite a fairy tale and this young man is the last person to be trusted given his earlier threats to jump into the sea which were perhaps just aimed at frightening his........

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