Two arrested in gruesome murder of author in Pakistan's capital
Faheem Sardar was found dead, bound to a chair, on June 25
Ali Hamza
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Ali; a journalist with 3 years of experience, working in Newspaper. Worked in Field, covered Big Legal Constitutional and Political Events in Pakistan since 2022. Graduate of DePaul University, Chicago.
Pakistan Television analyst, author and national security trainer Faheem Sardar.
Courtesy: faheemsardar.com
Victim tortured with metal rod during robbery, police say
One suspect was repeat offender, police say
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of author and analyst Faheem Sardar in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, police said Tuesday.
Sardar, 55, who frequently appeared on state-run PTV and was affiliated with a think tank focused on national security and strategy, was found dead at his residence on June 25. He was tied to a chair, and his house had been ransacked.
“We secured the crime scene initially because he was brutally murdered and his house was ransacked,” Islamabad police chief Ali Nasir Rizvi said at a press conference.
Police believe Sardar, the son of a retired brigadier, was killed while resisting a robbery. According to investigators, the assailants struck him three times with a metal rod, tied him up, and tortured him while demanding valuables before fleeing the scene.
Rizvi said dozens of suspects were interrogated across the nearby cities of Rawalpindi and Attock, located within 100 kilometers (62 miles) of the capital.
Investigators also reviewed nearly 300 CCTV recordings and analyzed over 4,000 mobile phone call records. The suspects were eventually tracked down and arrested during raids in the cities of Gujranwala, Sargodha, and Chiniot.
One of the arrested men is a repeat offender wanted in more than 25 cases, including robbery, dacoity, and illegal possession of weapons, police said.
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