Pakistani TV anchor Rabiya Ahsan found shot dead, husband arrested
Rabiya Ahsan, a 41-year-old TV anchor for 92 News, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head at her home in Rawalpindi. Her husband, a civil servant, has been arrested and claims the weapon discharged accidentally.
Police in Pakistan have arrested the husband of a well-known television anchor after she was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head inside their home in Rawalpindi. The husband, Ahsan Tahir Khan, claims the gun went off accidentally while he was handling it, a version of events that authorities have not accepted as established.
The victim, Rabiya Ahsan, was 41 and worked as a program host and news anchor for 92 News, a private broadcaster in Pakistan. Her body was found inside the house, and the death was reported by Punjab Information Minister Azma Zahid Bokhari. Rawalpindi police confirmed the shooting death of a woman in a post on X. Investigators seized a suspected weapon connected to the case, and the body was sent to a hospital for a postmortem examination.
Khan was arrested on Sunday. He is a civil service officer who works at the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation, a government agency. Police are preparing a murder case against him, and the final charges and any court outcome are not yet known. The accident claim remains unverified, and the cause of death is still in dispute.
The killing drew responses from senior officials. The Presidency called for a transparent investigation, and First Lady Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari condemned the violence. She also pointed to a wider pattern in which professional women have been killed by their husbands.
That pattern was raised in part because of a separate case earlier this year. About three months before Ahsan's death, media executive Hina Javed was found dead with signs of torture. Reports in that case said her husband and a domestic worker had been arrested. The two cases have prompted renewed attention to violence against women in Pakistan, though officials have not formally linked them beyond the First Lady's remarks.
Source: foxnews.com
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