SHE was articulate, she was poised and she was intelligent. Now Rabia Ahsan, television news anchor, entrepreneur and mother to two, is dead. According to news reports, this is how the tragic events unfolded.

On the afternoon of November 8, 2026, Rabia Ahsan was at her home in Rawalpindi, incidentally located not far from where Hina Javed, the last woman whose murder I wrote about in this column also died. At around 2.30 pm, Rabia’s mother and sister, who were in the lawn, heard a gunshot. They rushed into the bedroom she shared with her husband. Her sister found Rabia on the ground in a pool of blood and her husband Ahsan Tahir allegedly standing nearby holding a pistol.

Police arrested her husband and recovered the weapon. According to City Police Officer Hassan Sukhera, a male domestic worker told the police that Ahsan Tahir had claimed the gun went off accidentally. An FIR, registered on the complaint of her brother Khurram Ahmed, stated among other things that the husband could not produce a licence for the firearm. On Nov 9, the court granted police one-day physical remand of the suspect. The following day, his remand was extended by four days. Investigators sought forensic examinations and a........

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