)BY NOORILHUDA Pumping ~oison Sometimes the ‘health supplements’ used to get the body beautiful, ‘cut’ more than fat and muscle: they cut short life. he last 24 hours of Ali Farood’s life were like those of any other mod- ern young man in urban Pakistan: office, gym and dinner with friends. On October 3, 2016, a sunny Monday in autumn, the 26-year-old father of two girls, a toddlerand a newborn, went to his office at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SECP), Egerton Road, Lahore After work, he headed to a newly-joined gym for a workout and spent the night at hhis home in Zaman Park, where his father, Mohd. Siddiq-ul-Faroog, Chairman Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), had arranged adinner in honor of Governor Punjab, Malik Mohd. Rafique Rajwana. Ali ate litle, but sat with his father foran hour after the get- together ended. He went to bed at 12:30 am. That was the last time Siddiq-ul-Faroog saw his son alive. Thenext morning, Ali did not goto office: and was assumed to be resting, He was long dead by the time his father broke open the door with the help of servants that Tuesday night. The doctors at hospital declared the cause of death to be sudden cardiac arrest. No autopsy was performed — as per fam- ily wishes — and Ali was buried at the H-11 graveyard, in Islamabad, on Wednesday, October 5, leaving behind a shell-shocked family “He was athletic and very good in col- lege sports,” says his father of his sporty, ‘muscular son, one of his five children. In re- cent years, Ali had started taking aninterest in sculpting his body, and began to take nu- tritional supplements to enhance this goal. Siddig-ul-Farooq insists his son was not on steroids, but acknowledges he disapproved | é IBD) Newsline December 2016