{"id":58031,"date":"2026-11-09T19:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T13:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=58031"},"modified":"2026-11-09T19:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T13:31:04","slug":"tv-anchors-killing-rawalpindi-court-grants-police-2-day-physical-remand-of-victims-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/tv-anchors-killing-rawalpindi-court-grants-police-2-day-physical-remand-of-victims-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"TV anchor&#8217;s killing: Rawalpindi court grants police 2-day physical remand of victim&#8217;s husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>RAWALPINDI<\/strong>: A local court on Monday granted police two-day physical remand of Ahsan, the husband of anchorperson Rabia Ahsan, who was shot dead at home in the Gulshanabad area a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Rabia, who previously co-hosted a current affairs show alongside senior journalists Amir Mateen and Rauf Klasra, was found with a gunshot wound below her neck, City Police Officer (CPO) Hassan Sukhera told reporters on Sunday. Her husband was taken into custody following a complaint filed by her brother.<\/p>\n<p>A first information report was registered at Saddar Beruni police station under Section 302 (premeditated murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Section 2-A of the Punjab Arms Amendment Ordinance, 2015 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the suspect was presented before Area Magistrate Talat Waheed by police, who sought physical custody for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing the police request, the magistrate approved a two-day physical remand of the suspect, allowing investigators to interrogate him and pursue further investigation into the circumstances surrounding the anchorperson\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Following the court\u2019s order, police took the suspect into custody for further investigation. Ahsan, who is the primary suspect in the case, will remain in police custody for two days.<\/p>\n<p>The judge directed police to produce the suspect at the expiry of the remand period.<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, police said that a male domestic worker at their house informed them that the victim\u2019s husband claimed the gunshot had been fired accidentally.<\/p>\n<p>First Lady Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari had \u201cexp\u00adressed deep sadness over the killing\u201d and called for a thorough, impartial and transparent investigation to establish the facts and ensure that those responsible were held accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: A local court on Monday granted police two-day physical remand of Ahsan, the husband of anchorperson Rabia Ahsan, who was shot dead at home in the Gulshanabad area a day earlier. Rabia, who previously co-hosted a current affairs show alongside senior journalists Amir Mateen and Rauf Klasra, was found with a gunshot wound below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58034,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58031\/revisions\/58034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}