Another Karachi resident sets himself on fire 'due to poverty'.

Byline: Imtiaz Ali

A 45-year-old man committed suicide by setting himself on fire in Karachi's Orangi Town on Monday evening, according to Pakistan Bazaar police and rescue sources.

Police officials, quoting eyewitnesses, said that the victim took out a bottle of petrol from his rickshaw near his residence at Nishan-i-Haider Chowk, sprinkled it over his body and set himself on fire.

Residents of the area rushed him to a nearby hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. The body was subsequently shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital to fulfil legal formalities.

Pakistan Bazaar Station House Officer Iqbal Tunio said that the rickshaw driver ended his life due to poverty. The officer added that the deceased had been plying the rickshaw on rent.

Another police officer, Mohammed Safdar, said that the deceased was under a heavy burden of debts. He was supposed to return loans to people and shopkeepers from whom he bought essential items. He was also not in a position to pay his house rent, the officer added, quoting his relatives.

He was married but without any children.

The deceased's relatives told police that they did not want any legal proceedings...