Pakistani TV anchor Rabia Ahsan shot dead at home; husband detained

Millat Times Desk

09 November 2026 (Publish: 08:12 AM IST)

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A Pakistani television anchorperson was shot dead at her home in Rawalpindi, with police detaining her husband and seizing a suspected weapon, Dawn newspaper reported on Monday.

Rabia Ahsan, an anchor and programme host with a private television channel, was found dead at her residence in the Gulshanabad area on Sunday.

Rawalpindi City Police Officer Hassan Mushtaq Sukhera confirmed that her husband had been taken into custody and the suspected weapon seized. He said an investigation was under way.

According to the police chief, a domestic worker told investigators that Ahsan’s husband had claimed the gunshot was fired accidentally.

Forensic teams from the Punjab Forensic Science Agency were collecting evidence from the scene, while Ahsan’s body was taken to a hospital for a postmortem examination.

Pakistan’s First Lady Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari condemned the killing and called for a thorough, impartial and transparent investigation to establish the facts and ensure accountability, a statement from the Presidency said.

She also raised concern over what she described as a pattern of killings of professional women in the Rawalpindi area, referring to the August death of Hina Javed, a 45-year-old digital media executive found dead at her home with signs of torture.