Student found dead in private varsity’s hostel

Dawn reports that a second-year student, Ahmed Adnan from Kasur, was found dead in the hostel of a leading private university in Lahore's Defence Housing Authority. Adnan, who was enrolled under the university's National Outreach Programme, was discovered in his hostel room on Thursday. The varsity management informed the police, who subsequently notified Adnan's parents of his death.

Police stated that there were no signs of violence on the deceased's body, and they conducted a postmortem examination, initially suspecting cardiac arrest as the cause of death. The family of the deceased declined to initiate any legal proceedings.

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