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A sessions court in Lahore on Thursday extended the interim bail of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) Saqib Chadhar and his wife Samaira until July 13 in a case involving allegations of harassment and death threats against actress Momina Iqbal. The case was registered on June 4 by the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) over a complaint filed by Momina. According to the first information report (FIR), Chadhar and his wife were accused of engaging in a sustained campaign of cyber harassment, stalking, intimidation and blackmail against the actor. The hearing was conducted by Additional District and Sessions Judge Nusrat Ali Siddiqui, who granted the extension and provided Samaira another opportunity to join the investigation. During the hearing, the investigating officer (IO) submitted a progress report to the court, stating that the MPA’s wife had not yet joined the investigation despite repeated directions by the co...

A 19-year-old woman was allegedly shot dead by her uncle and cousin in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Lower Dir district after she was seen talking to a neighbour outside her home, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on June 26 in the mountainous village of Kharkai, within the jurisdiction of Khar Police Station. The victim was the only child of her parents. Her father had travelled abroad for work, while her mother died during childbirth last year. Following her mother's death, she had been living with her uncle. Read: 405 honour killings recorded across Pakistan in 2024: HRCP According to the police, she was allegedly killed in the name of "honour". Superintendent of Police (Investigation) Rashid Khan, who is leading the investigation, told The Express Tribune that a first information report (FIR) was registered in the case. He said the victim was killed with Kalashnikov fire and that spent bullet casings had been recovered from the crime scene. Acco...